Come explore the invisible world of biology through stunning visuals created by scientists and photographers from around the world.

This is the embryo of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) that’s been stained to visualize its developing skeleton. Its bones are red (1), the cartilage is blue (2), and some of its developing ...

This roughed-up red blood cell is infected with plasmodium – the parasite that causes malaria. These parasites invade and reproduce inside red blood cells and cells of the liver, causing fever, ...

Listen carefully, because this is an image of projections called stereocilia that extend from the hair cells in your inner ear. These cells move when sound waves hit your eardrum; the yellow proteins ...

While this group of colorful neurons was grown in a dish from stem cells, in the body neurons like this are responsible for sensing pain. There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called ...

These are cells that line the trachea of a mouse. The blue-gray, rounded cells (1) produce mucus that lines the trachea and helps protect it. The multicolored, hairy-looking cells (2) are specialized ...

What am I looking at? This is the head and upper thorax of a thistle mantis (Blepharopsis mendica). You can see its characteristic striped eyes (1), its antennae (2), its large claw-like front legs (3 ...

Take a visual journey through some of the major concepts in biology. These pathways to discovery were created by educators to help users explore various biological concepts. We would like to extend a ...

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Careers with AI@HHMI We’re recruiting scientists for AI@HHMI, our new $500 million initiative to embed AI systems throughout every stage of the scientific process. We will hire AI scientists, AI ...

View the profile of Eric R. Kandel, MD, Investigator Emeriti at HHMI from Columbia University.