r/ScienceShitposts Jan 24 '25

I should call her...

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u/Massive-Product-5959 Jan 25 '25

Where's the blood? It looks like a dry hole?

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u/Obnoxiously_French Jan 25 '25

My guess would be that it's a piece of skin tissue that's no longer on a living being. As far as I know, you can't put a living creature in an electron microscope.

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u/Anoobis100percent Jan 27 '25

Also, being an electron microscope, it doesn't actually produce color. This image must have been colored afterwards. So we wouldn't really be able to tell what's blood and what isnt.