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In Images: 2012 Nikon Small World Contest Winners

In Images: 2012 Nikon Small World Contest Winners

The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo captured using the Confocal technique at 20 times magnification.


Live newborn lynx spiderlings shot using Reflected Light, Figer Optics and Image Stacking Techniques at six times magnification.


Human bone cancer (osteosarcoma) showing actin filaments (purple), mitochondria (yellow), and DNA (blue) captured with the Structured Illumination Microsopy (SIM) technique at 63 times magnification.


Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) visual system halfway through pupal development, showing retina (gold), photoreceptor axons (blue), and brain (green) imaged using the Confocal technique at 1500 times magnification.


Cacoxenite (mineral) from La Paloma Mine, Spain in the Transmitted Light technique at 18 times magnification.

 

Cosmarium sp. (desmid) near a Sphagnum sp. leaf in the Polarized Light technique at 100 times magnification.

 


Eye organ of a Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) third-instar larvae pictured in the Confocal technique at 60 times magnification.


Pleurobrachia sp. (sea gooseberry) larva in the Differential Interference Contrast technique at 500 times magnification.


Myrmica sp. (ant) carrying its larva captured using Reflected Light and Image Stacking Techniques at five times magnification.


A brittle star imaged using Stereomicroscopy and Darkfield techniques at eight times magnification.

 

 

Single optical section through the tip of the gut of a Drosophila melanogaster larva expressing a reporter for Notch signaling pathway activity (green), and stained with cytoskeletal (red) and nuclear (blue) markers captured using the Confocal technique at 25 times magnification.


3D lymphangiogenesis assay. Cells sprout from dextran beads embedded in fibrin gel using the Fluorescence and Confocal techniques at 200 times magnification.


Sonderia sp. (a ciliate that preys upon various algae, diatoms, and cyanobacteria) pictured using the Nomarski Interference Contrast technique at 400 times magnification.


Pistil of Adenium obesum using the Image Stacking technique at 10 times magnification.


Section of a Coccinella (ladybug) leg captured using the Confocal technique at 10 times magnification.

Fossilized Turitella agate containing Elimia tenera (freshwater snails) and ostracods (seed shrimp) captured using Stereomicroscopy at seven times magnification.


Stinging nettle trichome on leaf vein using the Transmitted Light technique and 100 times magnification.


Coral sand using the Brightfield technique at 100 times magnification.


Embryos of the species Molossus rufus (black mastiff bat) captured using the Brightfield technique.


Floral primordia of Allium sativum (garlic) captured with the Epi-Illumiation technique.

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