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PHIL Images From This Week     0001930 01/09/2015 08:00 AM EDT Clostridium botulinum growing on egg yolk agar showing the lipase reaction after 72 hours of incubation. C. botulinum is a strictly anaerobic bacterium that when grown on egg yolk agar, its colonies will exhibit a lipase reaction, described as the shiny area around each colony.   0013056 01/08/2015 08:00 AM EDT Included in this grouping of fruits and vegetables were two bunches of red grapes, red tomatoes, two garlic cloves, two artichokes, three Anjou pears, leafy kale, a bunch of beech mushrooms, and a few white mushrooms.   0013645 01/07/15 08:00 AM EDT Placed atop a wooded cutting board, this still life included a ceramic bowl of Rome Beauty apples in the background, and in the foreground was a single apple that was covered in drops of condensed water. A baker's dream, but also a great eating apple, this variety displays smooth, blazingly bright red skin with sweet, slightly juicy flesh. Primarily used as cooking apples, the Rome Beauty's flavor intensifies, and becomes richer when baked or sauteed.   0004245 01/06/15 08:00AM EDT Magnified 1125X, this micrograph reveals both a macroconidium and some microconidia of the fungus Trichophyton rubrum var. rodhaini.   0010581 01/05/15 08:00AM EDT Magnified 125X, this photomicrograph revealed the presence of two Fasciolopsis buski trematode eggs that were found in an unstained formalin-preserved stool sample.   0018157 01/02/15 08:00AM EDT Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally-colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts a small grouping of H1N1 influenza virus particles.   0017345 12/31/2014 08:00AM EDT This is a 3-dimensional illustration showing the different features of an influenza virus, including the surface proteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA).   0018663 12/30/2014 08:00AM EDT The young boy and girl depicted here, were having a fun time partaking is a wide range of healthy physical activities at an outdoor recreation facility in one of the many metro Atlanta, Georgia suburbs. In this particular view, they were scaling one of the available rock-climbing walls on this wondrously-beautiful sunny day.