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Stunning Photos Of A Microscopic World

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Published: October 27, 2016

The annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography competition showcases “the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope,” according to Nikon’s website.

The winner was an image of a 4 day old zebrafish embryo, taken by Dr Oscar Ruiz from the University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre, shown at 10x magnification.

First place: Dr. Oscar Ruiz of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. Four-day-old zebrafish shown at 10x magnification.

Second place: Douglas L. Moore of the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Polished slab of Teepee Canyon agate shown at 90x magnification.

Third place: Rebecca Nutbrown of the University of Oxford in England. Culture of neurons (stained green) derived from human skin cells, and Schwann cells, a second type of brain cell (stained red). Shown at 20x magnification.

Fourth place: Jochen Schroeder, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Butterfly proboscis shown at 6.3x magnification. (One of my favourites)

Fifth place: Dr. Igor Siwanowicz of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia. Front foot (tarsus) of a male diving beetle shown at 100x magnification.

Sixth place: Marek Mis, Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland. Air bubbles formed from melted ascorbic acid crystals shown at 50x magnification.

Seventh place: Dr. David Maitland of Feltwell, England. Leaves of Selaginella (lesser club moss) shown at 40x magnification.

Eighth place: Samuel Silberman, Yehud-Monosson, Israel. Wildflower stamens shown at 40x magnification.

Ninth place: Vin Kitayama and Sanae Kitayama, Vinsanchi Art Museum, Azumino, Nagano, Japan. Espresso coffee crystals.

10th place: Rogelio Moreno Gill, Panama, Panama. Paramecium-like Frontonia organism (showing ingested food, cilia, mouth and trichocysts) shown at 200x magnification.

11th place: Francis Sneyers, Brecht, Belgium. Scales of a butterfly wing underside (Vanessa atalanta) shown at 10x magnification.

12th place: Dr. Dylan Burnette, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. Human HeLa cell undergoing cell division with DNA (yellow), myosin II (blue) and actin filaments (red). Shown at 60x magnification.

13th place: Walter Piorkowski, South Beloit, Illinois. Poison fangs of a centipede (Lithobius erythrocephalus) shown at 16x magnification.

14th place: Dr. Keunyoung Kim, University of California, San Diego, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, La Jolla. Mouse retinal ganglion cells shown at 40x magnification.

15th place: Geir Drange, Asker, Norway. Head section of an orange ladybird (Halyzia sedecimguttata) shown at 10x magnification.

16th place: Stefano Barone, Palazzo Pignano, Italy. Sixty-five fossil Radiolarians (zooplankton) carefully arranged by hand in Victorian style. 100x magnification.

17th place: Jose Almodovar of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Slime mold (Mixomicete) shown at 5x magnification.

18th place: Pia Scanlon, Department of Agriculture and Food, South Perth, Western Australia. Parts of wing-cover (elytron), abdominal segments and hind leg of a broad-shouldered leaf beetle (Oreina cacaliae) shown at 30x magnification.

19th place: Dr. Gist F. Croft, Lauren Pietilla, Stephanie Tse, Dr. Szilvia Galgoczi, Maria Fenner, Dr. Ali H. Brivanlou, Rockefeller University, New York City. Human neural rosette primordial brain cells, differentiated from embryonic stem cells shown at 10x magnification.

20th place: Michael Crutchley, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom. Cow dung shown at 30x magnification.

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