October 8, 2009 | 21 comments

Petite Pictures: The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners

Putting the very small on the big stage, the 35th annual Nikon Small World Competition awards top images

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Heiti Paves from Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia captured this 20x thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) using a confocal microscope. The little flowering plant has a short genome, making it a common subject of genetic study.

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