Micro-Cinema: Colorful Moving Cells

In this post, I gathered static and dynamic images of cells captured by cell biologists via microscopy and shared on Twitter. Biological molecules (i.e., biomolecules) in most of the images were color-coded. The majority of these images were about actin filaments and related biomolecules in a cell. The videos were accelerated to emphasize cell migration.

I like collecting microscopic cellular images due to my Ph.D. research interest, but I do not own any of the images below. The image featured on top of the post was a moving cell with its F-actin colored in blue (top) and red (bottom). The image belonged to Dr. Dylan Burnette.

A microscopic image of F-actin.

F-actin Solo Shots

HeLa. Actin in orange.
Fibroblast cell. F-actin in blue (top) and red (bottom).
Filopodia and lamellipodia.
Fibroblast. F-actin in blue.
Epithelial cell. F-actin in blue.
Breast cancer cell. Actin in blue.

F-actin & Friends

Cancer cells. actomyosin stress fiber were labelled. Actin in purple, myosin in yellow (not sure).
Fibroblast cells. DNA in green, mitochondria in yellow, F-actin in purple.
Binucleated cancer cell. F-actin in red, mitochondria in blue, DNA in yellow.
Cancer cell. F-ctin in magenta, Arp 2/3 complex in cyan.
F-actin in red, focal adhesions in green.
Epithelial cell. Actin in purple and adhesions in green.
Cancer cell. Actin in purple, myosin in green.
Cancer cell. F-actin in purple, myosin II in blue.
Melanoma cell. Actin in magenta, myosin II in cyan, DNA in yellow.
Melanoma cell. Actin in red, myosin light chain in green.
Cancer cell. Arp 2/3 complex in magenta, Clathrin light chain in green.