Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Human stem cells and neuron

Human stem cells and neuron

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Original – (A) shows hESCs (human embryonic stem cells). (B) shows neurons derived from hESCs.

Reason

It excellently illustrates the difference between differentiated and undifferentiated cells. In addition, both pictures are some of the best examples of cell staining I have ever seen, and it is very high quality.

Articles in which this image appears

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_potency; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell

FP category for this image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Sciences/Biology

Creator

Nissim Benvenisty (though it is Creative Commons licensed by the Public Library of Science).

• Support as nominator --Xoforoct (talk) 05:08, 8 December 2011 (UTC)