Credits: 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
16 Mind-Blowing Microphotographs of Living Things
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HeLa cell (human cervical cancer cell line) Fluorescence microscopy; 1500x Tomasz Szul; University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.Honorable Mention 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Blowfly proboscis Bright-field microscopy; 60x Ron Neumeyer; Delta, British Columbia, CanadaHonorable Mention 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Benthic diatom from the North Atlantic Differential interference contrast microscopy Dr. Stephen S. Nagy; Helena, Mont., U.S.A.Honorable Mention 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Radula of mollusk Polarized light microscopy Dr. Steve Lowry; University of Ulster, Londonderry, U.K.Honorable Mention 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
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Squid embryos Stereo microscopy Amelia Harris; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., U.S.A.Honorable Mention 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Dog flea Ctenocephalides canis Dark-field microscopy; 10x Ralph Grimm; Jimboomba, AustraliaHonorable Mention 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Live bovine pulmonary epithelial cells Fluorescence microscopy Michael Janes; Invitrogen Corp., Eugene, Ore., U.S.A.Tenth Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Cynoglossum officinale (Gypsy Flower) Dark-field stereo microscopy; 5x Viktor Sýkora; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Ninth Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
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Proboscis of common housefly Dark-field microscopy; 10x Ralph Grimm; Jimboomba, AustraliaEighth Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Living Dinobryon (golden algae) Differential interference contrast microscopy; 40x Wim van Egmond; Rotterdam, the NetherlandsSeventh Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Dictyostelium (slime mold) Stereo microscopy; 8x Ron Oldfield; Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaSixth Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
First known visualization in a living animal of T cells (green) killing target cells (purple) Multiphoton microscopy [image captured from video] Thorsten Mempel; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.Fifth Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
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Stamen of Mirabilis jalapa Confocal microscopy; 100x Dr. Robert Markus; Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Csongrád, HungaryFourth Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Zinnia flower primordium Epi-fluorescence microscopy; 200-plus images superimposed M. R. Dadpour; Department of Horticulture, University of Tabriz, IranThird Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Motor neurons in Drosophila melanogaster larva Fluorescence microscopy; 200x Dr. Hermann Aberle; Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, GermanySecond Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
Mouse retina Fluorescence microscopy (quadruple fluorescence); 550x magnification Thomas Deerinck; National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.First Prize 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
16 Mind-Blowing Microphotographs of Living ThingsPrize-winning microviews of everything from mouse retinas to slime mold: Click here to launch the image gallery
