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      16 Mind-Blowing Microphotographs of Living Things

      Prize-winning microviews of everything from mouse retinas to slime mold: Click here to launch the image gallery

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      16 Mind-Blowing Microphotographs of Living Things
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      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... 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition
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      • HeLa cell (human cervical cancer cell line)
      • Blowfly proboscis
      • Benthic diatom from the North Atlantic
      • Radula of mollusk
      • Squid embryos
      • Dog flea <i>Ctenocephalides canis</i>
      • Live bovine pulmonary epithelial cells
      • <i>Cynoglossum officinale</i> (Gypsy Flower)
      • Proboscis of common housefly
      • Living <i>Dinobryon</i> (golden algae)
      • <i>Dictyostelium</i> (slime mold)
      • First known visualization in a living animal of T cells (green) killing target cells (purple)
      • Stamen of <i>Mirabilis jalapa</i>
      • Zinnia flower primordium
      • Motor neurons in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> larva
      • Mouse retina
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