Cytoskeleton in differentiating neuroblastoma cells. Image courtesy of Torsten Wittmann, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco.

Carbohydrates on an array. Artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle. Review p817, Articles p845 and p851

Pseudocolored timelapse images showing microtubule dynamics in a triangular eukaryotic cell patterned with an anisotropic solid microetching approach. Picture courtesy of Bartosz Grzybowski; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle following suggestions of Bartosz Grzybowski and Kristiana Kandere-Grzybowska. Brief Communication p739

Confocal microscopic images of hippocampal neurons expressing PSD-95-GFP with calibrated fluorescent microspheres and stained with anti-MAP2 and anti-synapsin. Picture courtesy of Shigeo Okabe; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle. Article p677

Rat neurons growing in a microfluidic culture platform. Neuritic processes extend from the neurons in the somal compartment through the microgrooves toward the axonal compartment. Picture courtesy of Noo Li Jeon; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle. Article p 599

Atomic force microscopy topographic image of living mycobacteria on a polymer. Photograph courtesy of Yves F.Dufrêne; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle. Article p515

Collage of images depicting immunohistochemistry stains in mouse brain sections. Photograph courtesy or Ari Waisman; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle following suggestions by Saskia Hemmers. Article p 419

Image of DNA hybridized to a long oligonucleotide microarray. Photograph courtesy of Brenda Weis; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle. Articles p337, 345 and 351

Immunofluorescence microscopy image of a mouse kidney section; lateral cell membranes are stained with an antibody against cadherin (green), nuclei with DAPI (red). Micrograph courtesy of Dario Neri; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle. Article p291

Time-lapse FRET images of a transmembrane receptor, tagged with FLAsH and a flourescent protein, after agonist stimulation. Pictures courtesy of Martin Lohse; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle. Article p. 171.

Transmission electron microscopy of a mature vaccinia virus particle in a thin section of an infected cell. Electron micrograph courtesy of Andrea Weisberg, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH; artistic adaptation by Erin Boyle.

As tadpoles add diversity to a pond, molecular tadpoles, made up of a protein head and a DNA tail, will add important techniques to the molecular quantification toolbox. Photograph courtesy of Richard Nicholson, Christleton, UK; adaptation by Erin Boyle.