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This is a scanning electron micrograph of an astrocyte cell (coloured in brown) captured in the process of taking up carbon nanotubes (green colour). Carbon nanotubes are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure which have been recently explored as drug delivery systems due to their “nano-needle” characteristics.

Scanning electron micrograph.
Diameter of the cell is approximately 20 micrometers.