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1. Color electron micrograph of an endosome, a cell organelle. Credit: Ranjan Ramachandra, UCSD 2. Check out more of our winter holiday-themed Cool Image collections

While it may look like a pine wreath dotted with crimson berries, it is in fact one of the world’s first color electron micrographs – and the method used to create it may dramatically advance cell imaging. As his Christmas gift to himself each year, the late biochemist Roger Tsien treated himself to 2 weeks of uninterrupted research in his lab. This image is a product of those annual sojourns.

Electron microscopy (EM) is a time-honored technique for visualizing cell structures that uses beams of accelerated electrons to magnify objects up to 10 million times their actual size...