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  Welcome to the Biology Image Library

The Biology Image Library is an online collection of images, movies, illustrations and animations across biology and biomedicine, for use in education and research. The subjects covered are:

  • Development Biology
  • Histology & Pathology
  • Immunology
  • Microbiology & Parasitology
  • Molecular & Cellular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Plant Biology

The main features are:

  • Contributors retain image rights and Biology Image Library will also offer them the option of selling commercial use rights on their behalf.
  • Material is peer-reviewed by academic editors before being accepted for publication.
  • Users are able to search for important visual material and they can group images and movies into slidesets which can be downloaded as presentations and graphics files.

Access to Biology Image Library for non-commercial use is by subscription: log in, subscribe, browse, contribute.

Some images are available for commercial use. More information is given in the image view.

Featured images

Stamen hair
© Heiti Paves
Volvox sp. Colony
© Rüdiger Rudolf
Embyonic dorsal root ganglion cultured in 2D
© Simon Hippenmeyer and Silvia Arber
Lung: Diffuse parenchymal amyloidosis
© Yale Rosen
Release of filamentous Ebola virus particles from Vero E6 cells
© Björndal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
movie
Antigen-stimulated redistribution of Bcl10-GFP to punctate structures in T cells
© United States Government Work (public domain)
Visualization of fluorescent L. monocytogenes colonies
© Andersen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
movie
An animated model for muscle myosin-based motility
© Ron Milligan
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