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Caption: This shows isolated interscapular brown fat tissue fixed and stained by hematoxylin and eosin. Hematoxylin stains DNA in the nucleus purple. The pinkish eosin stain is mitochondria (along with other cytoplasmic proteins), stained stronger in brown fat
Credit: Sona Rajakumari and Jeff Ishibashi, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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