ASU scientists capture dynamic, detailed images using a scanning laser confocal microscope. The image at left is of a fungal cell. The different colors result from the use of three different lasers. The lasers excite molecules that researchers attached to specific structures within the target cell. In this image, the green color represents microtubules, which make up part of the cell's skeleton.
Orange represents areas of the cell where the microtubules originate.
The round blue objects are nuclei.