March 2014
二人で共鳴し梅の枝を照らす
FRET (Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer), which is a phenomenon of energy transfer between two adjacent fluorescent molecules, has been applied to visualization of interaction between proteins in living cells and so on. To carry out high-efficiency FRET, not only the distance between two molecules must be very close (less than about 10 nm) but the relative orientation of two chromophores must also be optimized. One of the women in this picture carries the other with attention paid on how they are oriented to each other, and successfully lightens the plum blossoms just like FRET.
February 2014
赤富士の背に小胞体とゴルジの雲
Mt. Fuji glows with the red tint of the rising sun. A bank of clouds is lying behind the mountain and presenting its characteristic appearance. There are lying clouds in shapes like, from the bottom, rough endoplasmic reticulum, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, and transport vesicles. There is seen above it a bank of clouds well-formed like a Golgi apparatus, and further above it smaller clouds like secretory vesicles. There may also be seen clouds like mitochondria. Wonder if it's just an illusion.