Single-celled Organism Dies Jams Germs 2018-12-24 | Also check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs.This is a single-celled organism in the genus Blepharisma and it is dying. I don't find them in my samples often, they usually have pinkish color and they are photophobic it means when the light levels are increased they will try to swim to the darkened areas. If they are exposed to light or starved, they will lose their pinkish color and will look like this one in the video, also strong light can even kill the colored ones. I don't know why this one died but how it dissolves to nothingness just broke my heart. Big or small, life is fragile. 😔.Check my friend Kate's drawing of this heartbreaking scene:inprnt.com/gallery/protozoaprincess/death-of-a-cellinstagram.com/protozoaprincess.If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my exclusive community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germs.For licensing and usage, contact: licensing@viralhog.com
Tardigrade Making Biscuits Like a Cat Jams Germs 2022-12-22 | Anna The Tardigrade making biscuits like a cat. 🥺.Tardigrades are resilient little animals but there is a misconception about them being indestructible. It’s so not true! They are just good at surviving environmental stresses; high/low temperatures, high pressure, extreme radiation levels etc.. But they can only survive these stresses when they are already in their dormant state, and they don’t look like this when they are dormant, they look like shriveled raisins more than anything. 😂.Tardigrades can go into the dormant state by altering their body content by producing a sugar called trehalose in high amounts. However the process of turning themselves into shriveled raisins takes a bit of time, while they are still active, they can be harmed very easily..As we can all relate, surviving is not really living at your full capacity. So when tardigrades are “surviving”, their biological clock almost stops. They don’t age even if they have waited in darkness for decades, once they sense the stress is gone, they “melt” and get back to waddling around, making biscuits with their tiny paws..Thank you so much for reading!Best,James Weiss#shorts #tardigrade #science
Single-Celled Organism Eats Jams Germs 2022-11-15 | This is a single-celled organism and it’s hunting down another one. #shorts #art .The huntress here is a Lacrymaria olor. It means “Tears of a swan” because of it has a swan-like neck and tear like body..Lacrymaria olor beats the hair-like cilia around its “head” and extends its neck up to 10 times of its body length. If we were able to do that, it would be like flapping your ears rapidly and extending your neck to ground level from the fourth floor. 😂.The prey was already killed when the head touched it because there are also toxin-ejecting harpoon-like structures at the tip of the cell. They pierce the prey, and kill it right away. Sometimes, if the prey is bigger, it gets away but loses a chunk of its body..Thank you for reading!Best,James Weiss
Tardigrade with Adorable Eyes Jams Germs 2022-10-30 | This is Apep the Tardigrade and Apep lives in my fridge and it hasn’t got the chance to see daylight for a year. #shorts .I have had some sample jars in my fridge since last winter, and they are ice-cold with really low oxygen concentrations. I grow very specific microbes in them called diplomonads and I wanted to record some yesterday and instead of diplomonads I found this ADORABLE baby! And since it lives without sunlight I thought Apep would be a perfect name for it..I didn’t think they’re any tardigrades living in these samples and it was such a surprise. The way Apep walks just melts my heart, isn’t it so cute? Although they’re aquatic, tardigrades cannot swim so they just walk underwater. 😂.That is probably why they have 8 legs and really long claws. Can you see how Apep grabs that piece of debris? That’s such a crucial skill if you live in a habitat, you don’t want to get washed away with every disturbance in the water..I put Apep back into the jar, and because the conditions are so stable in my fridge. It will live a happy and full life..Thank you for reading!Best,James Weiss
Red Blood Cells Jams Germs 2022-10-28 | A single vein running with ichor. 🩸 #shorts .I built a tent for my cats yesterday, and we had so much fun playing together. There was even a long cardboard tunnel for them to zoom in and out! However, in the end I had a tiny accidental scratch which led to this video..When I saw this scene under the microscope, I thought of Talos the Giant. Talos was a solid-bronze automaton made by the genius blacksmith-slash-craftsman, Hephaestus..According to the legend, Zeus “commissioned” him to make an invention to protect his daughter Europa from pirates in the island Crete. So Hephaestus forged this giant bronze machine, Talos, and made it “alive” by adding ichor, the fluid that runs in the veins of immortals. There was however a design flaw; Talos had a single vein in his bronze body, the life-giving ichor was running from Talos’s neck to his ankle and the ichor was held within the vein by a hammered bronze nail..Talos was patrolling the island, and hurling boulders at possible invaders. And he was slain when the sorcerer Medea (or philosopher Medea, depending on the country 😂⚡️ #pleasegetmyjoke) deceived him to believe that if he pulled out the nail, he’d be immortal. So Talos removed the nail, the ichor ran out like molten lead, exsanguinating the bronze giant and ending his patrol..Thanks for reading!Best,James Weiss
Microbes & Me Jams Germs 2022-05-21 | This is a letter to each one of you who feels lost in life. I’ll tell the story of me, James, which is a story of confession, passion and hope–with a hurting, clinically depressed protagonist, and a plot twist of him finding happiness unexpectedly in a tiny drop of water..This is a long text but I appreciate anyone who is willing to read it to learn more about me! I want to say thank you to the @ontheedge team for helping me to tell my story by choosing me as one of their favorite content creators!.So… My life story… I grew up such a curious kid, bamboozled by every living thing around me. I followed bugs, gazed at stars through my window and searched for fossils everywhere. My grandma loves to tell about the time I was 5 years old, and a chicken pooped in front of us. The curious 5-year-old me picked up a stick and poked at the poop for a good half hour. My grandma says, “You were so interested in the dropping, you wanted to see what was in it!” 😂 She also adds, “I knew you were going to be someone like this when you grew up.” 😂 Not sure if she meant that as a good thing, and although she still doesn’t quite understand what I do, I think she is proud of me. I don’t remember much from my first chicken poop experiment, but I do remember being obsessively curious about all animals. I wanted to live amongst them in Africa, and write books about them. I didn’t think of writing as a “real job” but also I didn’t think of Africa as a continent with many countries and borders. Childhood perspective tells so much about the society one grows up in. How naïve to think that you need to do hard labor to earn good money, yet to also imagine no invisible borders between the people of a continent..As a teen, I couldn’t stay just a curious kid. These years were the hardest. My depression was a result of all the domestic abuse I suffered for years. To the point that, back then, I never imagined passing 30. I thought I’d have kicked the bucket by the time, bought the farm, gone to the glue factory! Worst of all, I believed I would cause it. I never felt safe anywhere, never felt like I belonged. I was beaten and insulted every day for so long. Learning became an escape and helped me deal with very hard things, and I was good at dealing with stuff. Nature provided me with so many wondrous things that I could lose myself in. When I say nature, I think of even rocks and stars because they were and still are a part of my bubble. I grew up before the internet era, or at least before it was available in my home. But even with all this curiosity, I was shut in my room. I always locked my door, slept with knives under my bed. Nothing changed much when I grew older, I still searched for my place, somewhere where I felt accepted and safe. My search took me to many places; politics, spirituality, but in the end I was a 20-something-year-old who was struggling with debilitating social anxiety. I couldn’t even go to see a movie without feeling like fainting. .I then moved to Italy as a student, I couldn’t even imagine talking to people, let alone partying like every other student. Then I started drinking to help it, and it seemed to make it all fine. Now everyone knew who I was: the heart of the parties, so cheerful and happy–but no one knew I cried myself to sleep every night or more like every morning..In Italy I met a Polish girl and moved with her to Warsaw. I stopped drinking. My relationship started to go bad. And Poland was the opposite of Italy. It was hard to make friends regardless, but living here made it even harder. I was sad, poor and in a toxic relationship. I didn’t know what to do. But then I met my saviors in a lab course: the microbes! I would have never imagined seeing such a diversity through a microscope in a single drop of wastewater. My eyes were opened to so many things living, buzzing around! I would never have imagined that something invisible could be so beautifully ornamented. It was like my childhood “Africa” had been condensed into a single droplet. I was madly captivated. Everything I had ever been interested in had been in that water: I just didn’t know it. I began to crave learning about everything again. In the past what I usually did with new things was to get into something and consume everything about it in a couple of weeks–then move on to something else. But this field was so wild and unexplored, I started reading everything I could find! The more I learned the more ignorant I felt! I had never experienced that feeling before! I couldn’t stand meeting microbes only for two hours per week in the lab, so I scraped together the money to buy the cheapest microscope online for $160. I contemplated the purchase for days before buying it because I didn’t have money to pay the rent after. But I did it anyway. I learned how to use my cheap microscope very well, and keep learning about microbes. Just after a couple of months, my new “hobby” got tested. .Continues in the comments
Single-Celled Organism Dies 2.0 Jams Germs 2022-05-14 | This single-celled organism is about to die. I recorded a VERY similar footage almost 4 years ago and it went viral. And just a couple of days ago, I found this one and it died in a very similar fashion..As she says in my favorite poem, “Dying is an art, like everything else”.It’s a Blepharisma musculus, a cute, normally pinkish single-celled organism. Blepharisma are sensitive to light because the pink pigment granules oxidize so quickly with the light energy, and the chemical reaction melts the cell..When Blepharisma are living where they are regularly exposed to not-strong-enough-to-kill-them light, they lose their pinkish color over time. This one lived in a pond and then was in a jar on my desk under a lamp for a couple of weeks. So it lost its pink color, and because of the pigment loss, I thought it would survive my microscope’s light. But it didn’t and melted away to sadden me. Again, Blepharisma managed to prove to me how delicate life is..When I recorded the first dying Blepharisma like 4 years ago, I was having a really bad day and watching it die. It was like I was seeing my own life struggling, beating up my little arms and legs to survive but in the end everything was just particles, slowly drifting away on an empty canvas of a microscope slide. It made me cry and I wrote that I cried under my post, well, the internet called me a kitten (with a more vulgar word of choice). I upset the “manly-men” of the internet with my emotions, I am so glad for that because it’s kinda my favorite pastime activity. 😂.Best,James Weiss.instagram.com/p/CdfQc5SPGeQ
Single-celled Didinium Eats a Paramecium Jams Germs 2022-04-03 | Pardon my French but Merlin's smelly pants, what a scene! And it's in real-time!!!.Didinium is a vicious hunter, it has a arrow-head like cell mouth where it attaches itself onto the prey, releases toxins to immobilize it and opens its mouth wide enough to swallow the whole organism..You can see in the first clip that there are needle-like structures appearing after Didinium touches the Paramecium, those are actually coming out from the Paramecium, they are called the trichocysts and they work as a defense mechanism for the paramecia. Paramecium usually able to repel the attacks with them, the trichocysts ejected from the cell membrane so fast it pushes the attacker away, don't let the predators to get good hold on the prey. Fascinating isn’t it?.This is just a single example of prey and predator interaction out of millions you can find in the microworld. I hope you get my fascination about all those things better now?
A Rare and Bizarre Predator - Actinobolina Jams Germs 2022-03-23 | Actinobolina is a bizarre single-celled predator, it has "tentacles'' which can be extended and retracted. Each tentacle is armed with toxin ejecting structures to immobilize a prey. When it extends its tentacles, Actinobolina stays still and waits until a prey touches the tentacles, when it happens Actinobolina’s toxins kill the prey even before it gets to ingest it. Actinobolina positions the unlucky victim in front of its cell-mouth by moving it with the tentacles and swallows it to digest!.Whenever it wishes, it retracts the tentacles just in seconds and swims away to find a cozier place to set another trap. One of the most fascinating things about Actinobolina is that it seems to be choosing what to feed on. I watched them for hours and hours on my slides. They never fed on anything else but another microbe called Halteria! So fascinating to see food selection and recognition amongst the single-celled organisms..Thanks so much for reading. I’ll start adding narration soon!Best,James Weiss
Dileptus Biting off a Chunk from Another Single-celled Organism Jams Germs 2021-07-27 | This is a Dileptus, and it’s biting off a chunk from another single-celled organism..Dileptus are vicious hunters of the microscopic world, they have this elephant trunk-like structure called proboscis. And the proboscis armed with toxin ejecting tiny harpoons known as extrusomes..The harpoons are fired upon contact with a possible prey, killing or at least damaging it. In this case, the prey was a large organism, a Spirostomum, and it got away by losing a chunk of its cell..And then Dileptus just swallowed the chunk and carried on searching for something else to eat. Fascinating isn’t it?.I am not feeling so good these days, I am tired and my throat hurts when I wake up. I think it’s my acid reflux. 😫 And yesterday I checked a sample I collected last week, wasn’t expecting much but it turned out I have tens of Dileptus in every drop of the sample! So I spent a good 6 hours recording and observing them, which made me feel much better. And I micropipetted some of Dileptus into some flask so hopefully I will have a culture of them!.Thank you so much for reading! And don’t forget to order my book from the link on my bio and if you already did, please write a review..Best,James Weiss
The Weirdest Amoeba Ever! Jams Germs 2020-10-12 | This is a super interesting amoeba in real-time. It moves SO fast, I cannot get my head around it! What a stunning, complex single-celled organism, isn't it?!.I believe it is a Leptophrys, I found Leptophrys often but never seen this species before, it was much faster than the others I found. Can you see the extensions of its body that it sends out in every direction? Those are called filopodia, and it moves and hunts by using them. I cannot understand how it controls each of the filopodia, it blows my mind..Thank you so much for reading.And please check @journeytomicro for narrated videos!.Best,James Weiss
Tardigrades Feeding Apparatus Jams Germs 2020-09-29 | The water bear eats an alga at 01:30 and a bigger alga around 4:00. It fails to eat a colony of algae at 05:00..I think it's a great way to demonstrate how beneficial for microbes to be colonial, rather than being individuals! The colony in the first clip is Pandorina, a colony formed by many cells tightly packed together. The cells in the colony have two whip-like flagella, and the flagella beat to roll the colony in the water..And the second clip is a similar alga to the one that forms the Pandorina colony. But because it is way smaller in size than the Pandorina colony, it's eaten by the hungry water bear. Size really matters in the microworld. 😂.This water bear is slightly squeezed under the coverslip, so it wouldn't walk around like crazy. But I added some more water between the glasses and she was fine after. She actually had babies after that. 😂 By the way, the babies are healthy and well-fed! They are three days old now. Check this to see the babes,instagram.com/p/CFpEgXujlMf.Thank you for reading!Best,James Weiss
Single-celled Lacrymaria olor Hunts Down Another Cell Jams Germs 2020-08-18 | This is a Lacrymaria olor hunting down another single-celled organism. Look how precise and vicious it is, LOVING it!.Lacrymaria olor is a beautifully named single-celled organism, its name means "tears of a swan". So poetic!.Lacrymaria olor beats the hair-like cilia around its 'head" and extends its neck up to 8 times its body length. If we were able to do that, it would be like flapping your ears rapidly and extending your neck to ground level from the fourth floor. 😂 What a scene!.And can you see how it swallows the whole thing? Ahh, I really cannot get enough of them! So fascinating! The prey was already killed when the head touched it because there are also toxin ejecting harpoon-like structures at the tip of the cell. They puncture the prey and killed it right away. Sometimes, if the prey is bigger, it gets away but loses a chunk of its body..Thank you for reading, and please click the link to donate to my campaign.gofundme.com/f/qcv6qm-help-me-get-that-dic.Best,James Weiss
Heliozoans the Sun Animalcules Jams Germs 2020-07-17 | These are Heliozoa, single-celled organisms with many arms to give free but deadly hugs!.Heliozoa arms are extensions of its cytoplasm and are used for locomotion and food capture. When a prey organism comes in contact with an arm, it is held tight by the tiny structures on the arm and pulled back to the body of the heliozoan to be wrapped and swallowed. A horrible way to go!.And some in species, different individuals can gather together to digest bigger prey!.630x magnification, real-time.
Is that the Moon? Nope, its a Ciliate Jams Germs 2020-06-29 | I spent the whole day recording again and cannot get enough of the DIC. 😂 This is a single-celled organism belonging to a diverse group called the ciliates, it's most likely an Ophryoglena but not sure this time..Ciliates are absolutely amazing; the majority of the ciliate species have hair-like cilia on their cell, which they use for swimming and sometimes bringing food into their mouth by creating tiny vortexes..You can see the cilia and also can see the cell mouth too. And if you look carefully, you'll see two big round structures popping like bubbles, they are called the contractile vacuoles, and they expel the water that is continuously filling up the cell because of the osmosis..Even the most "simple" organisms are complex enough to blow your mind. No lifeform is simple, well except the politicians..Thank you for reading!Best,James Weiss.Also, please go check the update on my crowdfunding campaign and if you can, please donate so I can get the objective, which will let me record in 1000x magnification and this one is magnified only 630 times.gofundme.com/f/qcv6qm-help-me-get-that-dic
Arcella the Shell Building Amoeba Jams Germs 2020-06-28 | Dear friends, it was an overwhelming week but I wanted to share the first organism I saw under the microscope. If I know myself, which I know, I may get a bit emotional, please bear with me..It’s an Arcella, a shell building amoeba with a beautiful name and even with a more beautiful structure. I saw Arcella for the first time during a college course, I didn't know what it was, I asked my professor and he told me it's an amoeba with a shell. I was blown away. So intrigued and shocked by the complexity of this single-celled organism..I learned that Arcella builds a shell for itself, hides inside, and extends parts of its cytoplasm out to walk and eat some smaller organisms. I learned that Arcella's shell is actually colorless at the beginning of its life but then when the minerals in the water seep into the shell and turn it to yellow, and even to black..I was so amazed, I spent most of my life just learning things. I even studied ancient Egyptian just to have knowledge. And this microworld was the thing I was missing it was perfect and so many things to learn about. It was just a bit more than three years ago, since then I read, not exaggerating, tens of thousands of pages about microorganisms and I will keep reading and learning as long as I live. And if there is an afterlife I will continue to do the same. :P.I started my journey with a $160 microscope, I was posting on YouTube and 7 months later I started my Instagram and made my first 300 posts with that horrible microscope. People were always assuming I'm having an amazing microscope. No one was giving me credit for working so hard to get my images better and sharper. But now I have an amazing microscope and two gorgeous objectives which let me magnify 200 and 630 times. And for the first time, I feel like I have no setbacks from the technical part of the microscopy..Thank you so much for helping me to get where I am right now. Thank you for your comments, your donations, and your mental support..I will do this as long as there is a single person who reads and watches my posts.
James got a DIC Jams Germs 2020-06-26 | Yesterday, I got the dream microscope I was crowdfunding for, and here are the results. I can only magnify 200 times and 630 times at the moment because I got only 2 objectives a 20x and a 63x. I will get a 10x, 40x, and 100x objective but they cost $12k in total. So I will be keeping the crowdfunding campaign active, and if you wish to support it you can and if you don't/can't enjoy these amazingly detailed videos. Here is the link for the crowdfunding! Thank you!gofundme.com/f/qcv6qm-help-me-get-that-dic
Tentacles of a Mother Rotifer Jams Germs 2020-05-26 | Hello Everyone! James is here and today I have a microscopic animal to show! And it’s next to two single-celled organisms, if you don’t know what you are looking at, it can be extremely hard to distinguish a multicellular organism from a single-celled one. Here in the clip, the one extending over the scene is a rotifer called Collotheca with four eggs attached to its foot (that’s the term for that). One of its eggs was about to hatch. I think it was quite active!.Collotheca extends these amazingly thin hair-like tentacles to feel it’s surrounding, those tentacles vibrate even when I walk around the microscope. It opens its mouth like a cone and waits until something swims right in it, and then it swallows the poor thing!.And the two single-celled organisms are Stentors, one of them is almost constantly in the view and the other one appears from time to time. If you watch it closely you’ll see the Stentor swallowing an alga!.Thanks for reading!.And please don't forget to check my campaign for a DIC microscope, the details I’ll get with this microscope will blow your mind! Thank you!gofundme.com/f/qcv6qm-help-me-get-that-dic.For Short Videos: www.instagram.com/jam_and_germsFor My Videos Narrated: @Journey to the Microcosmos .For the Microscope I use:youtube.com/user/MoticEuropemoticeurope.com
Jake the Tardigrade Jams Germs 2020-05-25 | Hello Everyone!This is James and I present you Jake the Water Bear. He lives on such a busy slide, so much life in a tiny drop of water from a riverbank..Jake is shining because he has some stuff in his stomach that reacts with the polarized light. I just love how cute he looks! How many legs can you see? He has eight legs, but I am not sure if he knows how to use any of them on the glass, but in a day or two, bacteria, fungi, and some algae will form a thin layer on the glass, and then Jake will have something to grab with his claws and will start running like someone with an ax following him!.Thank you for watching!.And don't forget to check my campaign for the DIC microscope, thank you!gofundme.com/f/qcv6qm-help-me-get-that-dic.For My Videos Narrated Check: @Journey to the Microcosmos .For the Microscope I use:youtube.com/user/MoticEuropemoticeurope.com
Cyanobacteria and the Crowd it Attract Jams Germs 2020-05-23 | Hello, .This is James, and today I have a beautiful clip for you! This long green filament is actually a composition of hundreds of cyanobacterium cells, and the colony is able to move by gliding. They move to find a better spot for photosynthesis, but no one knows the exact mechanism of this weird motion..Tiny transparent cells are algae, Chilomonas and they are attracted to the oxygen that the cyanobacteria generate, because of all the biological activities on the slide, oxygen concentration gets low pretty quickly..What do you think about my Microscopic Journal entries? One long video for each day!.And don't forget to check my campaign for the DIC microscope, thank you!gofundme.com/f/qcv6qm-help-me-get-that-dic.For My Videos Narrated by Hank Green Check: @journeytomicro.For the Microscope I use:youtube.com/user/MoticEuropemoticeurope.com
Scavengers Feast Jams Germs 2020-05-22 | There is a dead daphnid on the bottom right, it's bodily fluids are leaking out, we can see just a portion of the daphnid because it's too big for the view. Many rod-shaped bacteria got attracted to this new nutrient source and a ciliate, big one in the view, came to eat the bacteria and the bits of the leaking daphnid..I'll upload a new entry from the microworld every day with a long video shortly described. I don't have time for editing but I can upload an uncut video like this, possibly, every day. So you can play your favorite playlist in the background and watch my upload, every day! Tell me what you think about this idea? Thank you so much!.MoticEurope BA310 Microscopeyoutube.com/user/MoticEurope
The Amazing World of Microbes Jams Germs 2020-03-16 | Hello!This is James, and as many of you already know, I am crazy about the microscopic world. I will turn 30 on March 19th and wanted to start a campaign to get my dream microscope. I know many of you people love my videos and want me to make even better ones! So you can support the campign to get some cute merchandise! Thank you!gofundme.com/f/qcv6qm-help-me-get-that-dic
Tardigrade Hatching - A Rare Sight Jams Germs 2019-12-03 | You're about to witness something amazing, this water bear egg about to pop like popcorn... Two days ago, I was just a regular guy with a bunch of hopes and doubts but now I am a father. I am the father of 28 just hatched water bears. 🥰 Like all parents, I believe my water bear babies are the cutest but would you look at her. Look how cute she is, coming out of the egg and saying hello to this strange world. It was one of the most amazing moments of my life, you already know how much I love them and watching 28 eggs hatch was truly unforgettable. Let me know your name suggestions. It will be hard to distinguish them from one another but we can try! 😂 .If you wish to support me, you can join me on patreon or you can make a donation via PayPal. I get to create videos like this because of you people. Thank you!.Patreon; patreon.com/jam_and_germs Instagram; instagram.com/jam_and_germs . Motic BA310 Microscope (youtube.com/user/MoticEurope)
Vicious Microscopic Life Jams Germs 2019-11-06 | This is a Stentor coeruleus and it's EXPLODING from being bitten by another single-celled organism! I wasn't expecting that, never saw something small doing that to a giant Stentor. But you know what they say, there is a first time for everything! 😂.I am not sure about the smaller organism species maybe a Prorodon, it was 'sucking' a bit of Stentor's membrane when I saw it and then it took me 30 seconds to start recording and right after I started to record Stentor just emptied its cytoplasm out! And I was like, Merlin's Dirty Pants!!!! 😳.Luckily, Stentors have crazy regeneration abilities and this one was able to fix itself in like 5 minutes. After discharging its cytoplasm its size got smaller but in a day or two it will just grow bigger again!.Life is crazy in microscopic scale, I am getting surprised by my little pond buddies everyday! They changed my life and they even made me a better man! Thanks for joining me on this adventure!.Please don't forget to comment under my post and if you wish to help me you can be my patron on Patreon and help me to make a living from what I'm passionate about.Patreon; patreon.com/jam_and_germsInstagram; instagram.com/jam_and_germs.Motic BA310 Microscope (youtube.com/user/MoticEurope)
The Starry Night under the Microscope Jams Germs 2019-10-22 | Hello everyone! These are my favorite organisms! Stentor coeruleus and they are creating a mini version of "The Starry Night" under the microscope! I love them more than anything else from the microworld! They are so beautiful and big, around 4 mm in length! This was recorded in only 40x magnification with my Motic microscope!.I found them in the sample I collected from a forest lake yesterday. There are, not exaggerating, tens of thousands of them in one of my jars now. They beat their cilia around their mouth to create a vortex to bring anything edible into their mouth..Stentor coeruleus also have crazy regeneration abilities. If you cut them into a hundred pieces each piece will regenerate into a normal looking Stentor coeruleus in a day or two! The key components for the regeneration is that the piece will contain a bit of the cell nucleus which runs through the whole cell like a necklace and a bit of the cell membrane..I don't know how to express myself but I go crazy for Stentor coeruleus. I just love them so much!.If you want to see my videos narrated please go check our new show "Journey to the Microcosmos"youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g/videos.Motic BA310 Microscope (youtube.com/user/MoticEurope).Thank you!
Animal Found Alive Inside a Cell - Last 18 Minutes Jams Germs 2019-10-17 | Hello everyone! If you would like to see my videos narrated and edited, check our new channel "Journey to the Microcosmos". You'll love it, I promise!youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g.This is a multicellular organism rotifer swallowed ALIVE by a single-celled organism Stentor coeruleus. We are watching it die slowly and just a reminder this rotifer has a simple brain. Welcome to the horror house you empathetic humans!.The big, greenish one is the single-celled organisms. It's one the giants you can find in ponds, just composed of a cell, nothing more. And the one that wiggles in the single-celled giant is the animal with thousands of cells. It has guts, glands, stomach a brain. It certainly can feel something, maybe not necessarily pain but it can feel..So Stentor coeruleus swallowed it through the cell mouth and wrapped the poor rotifer with a membrane inside its cytoplasm and rotifer will be digested by the enzymes and nutrients from it will be a part of the Stentor. Poor thing survived almost half an hour. It punctured the Stentor cell a couple of times by extending but couldn't manage to escape and finally gave up and died. And here is the last 18 minutes of that struggle..Horror is real! Imagine how would it feel to be swallowed by something bigger than you and you are conscious for half an hour..Check my Instagram for daily videos:instagram.com/jam_and_germsAnd you can be one of my patrons on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germs
This Animal Can Live Forever - Hydra Jams Germs 2019-04-02 | Check my Instagram to watch videos like this every day!instagram.com/jam_and_germs.Thank you to Cédric Drolet-Lefrançois for the music!I will be using his work in my future uploads! Check it out his profile!instagram.com/__vactrol__.Link to my Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germs
We Are Lucky These Are Microscopic... Jams Germs 2019-02-25 | Check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germsAlso, If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germs.200x, freshwater..Ps. There was a problem with italic words in the edit, please excuse me.
Jewels of the Sea - Diatoms Jams Germs 2019-02-17 | Please check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs.I am looking for my 24th Patron to join my Patreon community.patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Thank you for watching..Video sped up 2x.400x, freshwater.
A Drop of Life from a Pond Jams Germs 2019-02-10 | Hey! This is a drop of water from one of my home grown cultures. It is full of life with single-celled organisms. Small ones are Paramecium and the bigger cells are Stentor coeruleus. Isn't it wonderful? I have 5 liters of this drop at home 😂..Stentor coeruleus is a really big single-celled organism that you can see with a naked eye. It has many skills, if you cut it into pieces each piece will form a new cell. They are also green-bluish, makes them incredibly cute in close-up they kinda look like blue whales. Check my previous videos to see that smiling adorable whale. 😂 I will post more today! I have some free time. 😊 Thank you for watching and reading!.If you enjoy my videos, please consider supporting me on Patreon. patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also you can check my Instagram, I share a new video there everyday! instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Dwight Schrute the Water Bear Jams Germs 2019-02-04 | Hello there! I have a cutie to show you today. This is a water bear, it is the toughest animal on earth! 🐻 I decided to name him Dwight after Dwight Schrute because they are equally relentless 😂. Look at those cute legs! 😍 Isn't he funny?! Look how he tries to move!.Dwight is a water bear, sometimes it is called a tardigrade or a moss piglet. They can survive extreme conditions which would kill almost everything else. They are even sent to outer space on a rocket ship and survived the vacuum of space. 😮 They can survive in extreme conditions, such as temperatures from -272 °C (-458 °F) to 150 °C (300 °F), extremely high radiation levels, extreme pressures. Even some people believe that they came from outer space on an asteroid, just like Dwight Schrute..Water bears are multicellular organisms just like you. They have another strange thing though when we humans grow, our bodies produce more cells, so that's how a kid get taller. But water bears hatch from eggs and when they hatch they have a certain number of cells in their body. Some thousands cells and the number of cells doesn't change, they grow in size when each cell in the body grows. 😳.I found Dwight from a sample I collected a week ago. He came under 30 centimeters of ice. 🥶.I am working over the weekend and I fell asleep 3 times, at least, when I was writing this post. I hope you all enjoyed this cutie. Thank you for reading and watching! 💕 Kisses 😘.100x, freshwater(pond)..I am looking for my 21th Patron to join my Patreon community.patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs..Music: www.bensound.com
Blue Whales of the Microworld with Incredible Abilities! Jams Germs 2019-01-31 | Hello People, this is Stentor coeruleus. It is the blue whale of the microworld. They are blue and gentle also very wise! Although they are unicellular organisms you can spot them with the naked eye. They can be couple of millimeters in length. Can you see the details of the cell? Isn't it really beautiful?!.They can regenerate after being cut. Can you see the beads in the cell, they look like a necklace or a rosary? That's the nucleus of the Stentor coeruleus where the millions of copies of its genome stored. If you cut a Stentor coeruleus into hundred pieces, this each piece will become a whole cell. As long as the cut piece of the cell contains a bit of the nucleus it will regenerate back to a healthy looking cell..They are like squids 🦑as well, they eject the pigment that gives them the blue color in order to avoid predators. One of the Stentors in my slide ejected the blue pigment but I wasn't able to record it, still you can see the blue marks in the video. Thank you for reading. .100x, 200x, freshwater (pond)..If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my exclusive community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs.I think I will start making voice overs soon!
Micro-vortex by a Cell Jams Germs 2019-01-29 | Hey hey! I prepared a simple demonstration for you today. This blue cutie is a single-celled organism called Stentor coeruleus. It's quite a beautiful creature and one of my favorite things to watch under the microscope. Nope not after sperm so stop asking. 🙄😂.Stentors are part of a highly advanced single-celled group called "ciliates". The name comes from the hair-like structures called "cilia" which cover the cells fully or sometimes partially..This Stentor's cell is covered with these tiny cilia. Cilia are used for locomotion and feeding. Beating of these thousands of tiny cilia propels the cell in the water also the beating brings the food particles into Stentor's mouth by creating a vortex. 🌪️.So I used one of my homegrown algae cultures to visualize it for you. Those tiny green bits are all algae. I cultured these algae at home and they came from blueberries I bought from the supermarket 😂. I washed the blueberries with a bit of water, ate the berries 😋 and added some liquid plant fertilizer (which I bought from the same supermarket 😂) in that water and after couple of months on my windowsill water turned to bright green and there were there! They are incredibly small but extremely beautiful and I thought I can add couple of drops of those algae into a slide with some Stentors to make the feeding vortex much more visible..Can you see the current? The vortex? Isn't it amazing that this tiny cell has an ability to feed itself like this? It can pull the food particles and even some other cells into its mouth and eat them just like I ate the blueberries..Nom nom nom. 😋Thank you for watching and reading!Nom nom nom 🤤.You can join my Patreon community as my 18th patron and help me make more videos also a nice surprise is coming really soon for my patrons!patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Busy Life from a Frozen Pond Jams Germs 2019-01-27 | Hello everyone! This is from a sample I collected the other day. It is from a frozen pond and also one of the richest samples I checked under the microscope. You can see the description of my previous video to read how I collected the sample..In this video, there are many different species of rotifers. Rotifers are micro-animals at the size of single-celled organisms. They have brains, muscles, digestive system... And they are bullied by the single-celled organisms all the time. I find them kinda funny when they swim, they look so clumsy. 😂.Can you see the long, horn shape one? That's a species of Stentor, a unicellular organism. All the others in the video are rotifers. Stentors can be quite big but this one is not big at all! Stentors take this form to filter water for food, you can see the hair-like structures beating, they are called cilia and their beating creates a current that brings the food into the Stentor's mouth. I will identify the species later on because I have so many of them in my new samples. 🤤..I just watched the last episode of the tv-series "The Office" and I am quite sentimental now. 😭 If you haven't seen it, just watched it. It's so good. I want to name a water bear after Dwight ❤️..Thank you for watching and reading, especially for reading! 😂.You can join my Patreon community as my 16th patron and help me make more videos also a nice surprise is coming really soon for my patrons!patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also, check my Instagram to see videos like this every day.instagram.com/jam_and_germs.100x, freshwater (pond).
Pac-Man of the Microworld Jams Germs 2019-01-27 | Hey there! I have a silly looking single-celled to show you. This is a species of Campanella. They usually attach themselves to things with something called stalk but rarely I found them moving like this in my slides and it kinda looks like Pac-Man. 😂.They move with the beating of the hair-like structures called cilia. Can you see them? They are also specialized in bringing the food particles and other small critters in to the mouth of the cell. Campanella attach themselves to anything they find comfortable with a stalk and uses these cilia to pull something delicious to the cell! 😋 And if they don't like their place they simply break the stalk and leave, they obviously have no attachment issues! 😌.This Campanella came from a sample I collected yesterday..I went to collect samples but recently weather was horrible. Pond was frozen, I managed to make a hole in the 25 centimeters thick ice with a screwdriver, it took an hour! And collected 3 jars of water. One of the jars literally exploded when I was tightening the lid because of the sudden temperature change, I didn't get injured but got all wet and I was freezing when I finally got home..Today I woke up a bit feverish and my throat is killing me but you know what my samples are full of life so it worth it! There are even water bears! 🤤 Thank you for reading! ❤️.You can join my Patreon community as my 16th patron and help me make more videos also a nice surprise is coming really soon for my patrons!patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs.100x, freshwater (pond).
Theodore the Water bear Jams Germs 2019-01-10 | I have something adorable to show you today. This little guy's name is Theodore! ❤️ Theodore is a water bear, also known as a tardigrade or a moss piglet 🐖 Theodore has many many talents and hobbies but he really sucks when it comes to walking. His hand-eye coordination skills are the worst! You would expect something with 8 legs to know how to move, he has no idea how to use those legs! Merlin's pants, he only waddles! 😂.But also Theodore has many skills, such as;- He can withstand extreme temperatures like -272 °C (-458 °F) or 150 °C (300 °F).- He wouldn't mind extreme pressures about six times greater than the deepest ocean trench.- He can sunbathe in radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for his "hooman" which is me 🙄.- He can go without food or water for more than 30 years..But it doesn't mean Theodore likes these extreme conditions, he is good at surviving just like his "hooman". Every time you find yourself in a stressful situation, whenever you feel like your heart is being squeezed in your chest, just remember if this little guy can make it, why can't you?.I want to thank you to @life_of_isamoose for joining my exclusive community on Patreon and coming up with the name Theodore. I cannot imagine anything more suitable for him. .You can join me on Patreon as my 10th Patron. Link is on my profile..100x, freshwater (pond).Hello everyone! I prepared a video of my recent findings in the microworld..If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germsAlso check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Giant Single-Celled Organism is Dividing Jams Germs 2019-01-09 | If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my exclusive community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Hello People, this is Stentor coeruleus dividing. Cell division is an asexual reproduction by a separation of the cell into two new cells. Single-celled organisms can increase their number quickly with this when the conditions are favorable for them. Stentor coeruleus is the blue whale of the microworld. Although they are unicellular organisms you can spot them with the naked eye. They can be couple of millimeters in length. Can you see the details of the cell? Isn't it really beautiful?! If they are not disturbed they attach themselves to something in the water and extend fully to filter water to get something delicious to eat. Also, they can regenerate after being cut. Can you see the beads in the cell, they look like a necklace or a rosary? That's the nucleus of the Stentor coeruleus where the millions of copies of its genome stored. As long as the cut piece of the cell contains a bit of the nucleus it will regenerate back to a healthy looking cell. They are like squids as well, they eject the pigment that gives them the blue color in order to avoid predators. I found some in a sample I took from a frozen pond and managed to culture them at home! .Also check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Single-celled Vacuum Cleaner Eats Jams Germs 2019-01-05 | Hey there! I present you the "Roomba" of the microworld, Bursaria truncatella. This is one of the biggest single-celled organisms. They can be seen with the naked eye and some of these behemoths can be almost 2 millimeters long! 😳.They are like the vacuum cleaners, they sweep the other organisms into their extremely wide mouth and swallow them 😋. Cell surface is cover with tiny hair-like structures called cilia, cilia used for locomotion and also their beating create a current that brings possible prey into the mouth..At the beginning of the video, an unlucky single-celled called Paramecium swims right into the mouth of the giant and gets eaten by Bursaria truncatella. 😲 Can you see how the Paramecium is taken inside the cell? It is wrapped by a membrane during the process and formed a food vacuole. Afterwards this food vacuole will be filled with digestive enzymes and Paramecium will be digested. Vicious world isn't it? These things are happening all around you, in puddles, lakes, rivers, ponds... But still I feel so lucky to witness it and thank you for joining me. ❤️.200, freshwater..If you enjoy my videos please consider helping me on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germsAlso check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Some of the Most Beautiful Cells on Earth Jams Germs 2018-12-30 | Hello everyone! I am posting a combination of short videos that shows the different species of the single-celled beauties in the genus Phacus. Diversity of Phacus will amaze you also they are one of the prettiest things you can see under the microscope. According to the Wikipedia there are 564 species of Phacus and in my opinion all of them are captivatingly beautiful! They are commonly found in freshwater habitats, they are photosynthetic organisms so they produce their own food from the sunlight just like the plants. Can you see the red dot on the cells? It is something called the eyespot, Phacus species use this eyespot to detect the light source and swim towards it so they can use the light more effectively for the photosynthesis. Although they primarily receive their nutrients through photosynthesis, they are also capable of feeding on certain kinds of algae and bacteria using a feeding apparatus located on their underside. They have a whip-like structure called flagellum, which makes the cells motile and swim around. I am a big fan of the Renaissance art, when I look at a painting from Botticelli or something from Michelangelo I get this feeling that I cannot describe easily, well call me a lunatic but I often get the same feeling when I look through a microscope. Thank you for reading and watching..If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my exclusive community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germsAlso check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Paramecium bursaria is Relaxing to Watch Jams Germs 2018-12-29 | Hello everyone! This is a single-celled microorganism called Paramecium bursaria. A Paramecium species with the endosymbiotic green algae from the genus Chlorella. Green algae provide some food and oxygen for the P. bursaria and P. bursaria gives extra protection for the algae. It was stuck a thick mat of bacteria and was eating its way out :D I found watching it really relaxing..If you enjoy my videos please consider helping me on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germsAlso check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs.Thank you very much!
Water Bear Poops! Jams Germs 2018-12-27 | Meet my adorable pet water bear, Buttercup! She wakes up from something called the tun state and the first thing she does is pooping! Water bears are one of the toughest creatures on earth. They are considered to be able to survive even complete global mass extinction events like meteor impact! Some of them can withstand extremely cold temperatures down to 1 K (−458 °F; −272 °C), while others can withstand extremely hot temperatures up to 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C) for several minutes, pressures about six times greater than the deepest ocean trench, radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and even the vacuum of outer space. They can go without food or water for more than 30 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water. Thank you for watching!.If you enjoy my videos please consider helping me on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germsAlso check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Hidden Life Jams Germs 2018-12-22 | Hello everyone! I prepared a video of my recent findings in the microworld. If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my exclusive community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germsAlso check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Microscopic Life Jams Germs 2018-11-17 | Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed watching. Please don't forget to subscribe to my channel and check my Instagram account for daily videos. Thank you.Instagram: instagram.com/jam_and_germsPatreon: patreon.com/jam_and_germs
Buttercup the Water Bear Sees a Giant Amoeba Jams Germs 2018-10-26 | This is Buttercup the Water Bear. She lives in one of my slides for awhile. I believe she is the cutest one I have ever seen! She was in grave danger other day. 😲 There was a giant amoeba looking for food. But luckily our cutie made a wise choice and did not get too close to the giant. Water bears are animals that means they are multicellular, a combination of thousands cells and on the other hand amoebae are just single-celled microorganisms. Isn't that amazing? There is such biological difference in between them but still they look like doing the same thing. That blows my mind every time.🤯 .I have just started my Patreon account, If you would like to support me, here is the link; patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also please don't forget to check my instagram account, I share a new video there every day; instagram.com/jam_and_germs
Giant Cell Swallows an Animal Alive Jams Germs 2018-10-20 | A single-celled giant swallows a rotifer alive! 😲.The big one is a single-celled microorganism called Loxophyllum meleagris, and the small one is an animal called rotifer. Rotifers are animals, they have basic structures like muscles, intestines, etc. and they have some thousands of cells in their body. Loxophyllum meleagris is a "giant" unicellular, it's just a cell, nothing more but the complexity of unicellular organisms can be mind blowing. This one is armed with extrusomes, these things are like little harpoons on the surface of the cell that their toxic content is discharged by stimuli. In here when the rotifer touches the unicellular, it gets stunned by the hit of the extrusome. Then the unicellular takes it inside the cell through the cell mouth, rotifer is covered with a membrane during the process of being swallowed and it forms a "food vacuole" where the digestive enzymes are flushed and the rotifer gets digested. I hope you enjoyed watching it. All the best! ♥️.If you enjoy my videos please consider joining my exclusive community on Patreon:patreon.com/jam_and_germs.Also check my Instagram account to see videos like this everyday: instagram.com/jam_and_germs.100x, freshwater.
The Biggest Bacterium Ive Ever Seen! Possibly a Spirochaete sp. Jams Germs 2018-09-23 | Check my Instagram account for daily videos and don't forget to subscribe! instagram.com/jam_and_germs
