The Wellcome Trust just announced the winners of the 2006 Biomedical Image Awards. The pictures are absolutely stunning:
Here is a goblet cell, which line the inside of the intestine and respiratory system.
And here is a cerebellar granule cell, growing in culture.
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Wellcome Trust Biomedical Image Awards for 2006 have been announced.
The winners can be seen
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This photograph shows nerve cells growing along synthetic silk fibers.
The tiny blue dots are
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From the Department of Fairness and Balance:
Marrow stem, by Spike Walker
For an elevatory antidote to the grimness of my previous post (about global warming cracking the Eiger), see the lovely collection of images from the Wellcome Trust's Biomedical Image Awards contest.
As the site puts it…
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