i liked the orginal
it gave a darker feel
this is good too how did u get the glow
I like the last image because it’s pretty real with the new lighting 
Wonderful work!
I have to say I liked the daker renders better too.
hi munkey_mike…!
great that I inspired you in your work
the origin for my work was a tutorial made For LightWave that I used to make it in Blender instead 
, and you can find the tutorial here:
http://newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/modeling/bloodcells/index.html
and also, my work for my cells was made before the Rampshaders existed, and I actually think that in my own taste, I got better result with Blend-texture , Halo/Sphere using the Normalmapping for this, than Rampshaders, I know cause I tested it afterwards, but a lot of tweaking could help as well …but I feel I got the best touch with Blend-texture…anyway, looks great!!