Wellcome Image Awards 2017 수상작품

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Established in 1997, the Wellcome Image Awards reward and showcase the best in science image making – and this year’s 22 winning images represent a broad spectrum of techniques and specialisms.

Brain-on-a-chip
Dazzling in green and magenta this image shows the nerve fibres (in green) produced by neural stem cells (in magenta) as they grow on a synthetic gel. Captured by a technique known as confocal microscopy, the image is part of research shedding light on how tinkering with the environment can affect the way in which nerve fibres grow.

Cat skin and blood supply
This image, captured from a Victorian microscope slide using polarised light microscopy shows, as the title reveals, cat skin and its blood supply. Fine hairs and thicker whiskers are shown in yellow while blood vessels are shown in black. More than 40 images were combined to produce the final colourful image.

Hawaiian bobtail squid
This jaunty little Hawaiian bobtail squid was captured with close-up photography which produced a series of images that were then stitched together. The diminutive creature is a classic example of symbiosis: the squid offers a home and nutrients to light-producing bacteria, while the bacteria allow the squid to flit through the water without creating a telltale silhouette.

Intraocular lens ‘iris clip’
This photograph of the human eye shows a surgically implanted structure that can correct or restore vision. Different types of intraocular lenses can be used to tackle different conditions such as short-sightedness and even cataracts. This image was the winner of the Julie Dorrington Award for outstanding photography in a clinical environment.

Rita Levi-Montalcini
A striking portrait, this digital image depicts the late neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini. A medical graduate in Italy in the late 1930s, she was forced to work in secret on her early research as a result of Mussolini’s antisemitic laws. She later moved to the US and went on to discover nerve growth factor, a breakthrough that scooped her half of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1986.

Vessels of a healthy mini-pig eye

Produced from CT scans and 3D printing, this is a model of the blood vessels of the eye of a miniature pig. A small as 0.02 mm in diameter, the vessels are vital in the delivery of nutrients to muscles which change the size of the pupil, constricting or dilating its size to regulate how much light enters the eye.

Zebrafish eye and neuromasts
This image was captured using confocal microscopy. The lens of the zebrafish is shown in red in the centre of the image, its nervous system is shown in blue, while the surrounding red structures are the neuromasts – cells which underpin the ability of fish to detect changes in the movement of the water. This in turn plays a role in all manner of behaviours including helping fish pick up the movements of prey.

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