Solvin Zankl / Research scientist Dr. Anne von Philipsborn sorting a laboratory culture of Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) at the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austri...

Juergen Freund / Fred Gurgel organizing his algae / seaweed specimens, as part of the Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008

Roland Seitre / Yellow-striped / Magdalena Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates truncatus) tadpole in petri dish. Cali Zoo, Cali, Colombia 2010. Growth development Sequence 3 of 3. With front and back legs

Roland Seitre / Yellow-striped / Magdalena Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates truncatus) tadpole in petri dish. Cali Zoo, Cali, Colombia 2010. Growth development Sequence 2 of 3. With back legs

Roland Seitre / Yellow-striped / Magdalena Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates truncatus) tadpole in petri dish. Cali Zoo, Cali, Colombia 2010. Growth Development Sequence 1 of 3.

SINCLAIR STAMMERS / A petri dish contains the Slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) which is growing in culture on nutrient agar.

Jeff Rotman / A novel actinomycetes (bacterium known to produce antibiotics) isolated from marine biomass collected from oil-rig platform growing on an agar plate, Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Roug...