Biomedical Image Awards

By at 4:16 pm Wednesday, Jul 19

The selections in the Wellcome Trust's Biomedical Image Awards 2006 are truly incredible. From bugs to brain cells, colon cancers to collagen fibrils, this look at the natural world just boggles my mind. The images were chosen from recent acquisitions of the Welccome Library's Medical Photographic Library, a wonderful online gallery in its own right containing images from 1,000 years of medical history. Seen here is Ludovic Collin's confocal micrograph of nerve cells. From the image description:
En Bia Images 25A cluster of special nerve cells called cerebellar granule cells, growing in culture. These cells naturally gather together, and when placed in a culture dish covered in a particular protein, they start sending out long projections (yellow/green) as they would in the developing brain.
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David Pescovitz

Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.

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