Microscope Photography - Nikon Small World Winners
Teresa Zgoda01Taenia solium (tapeworm) everted scolex
02Immortalized human skin cells (HaCaT keratinocytes) expressing fluorescently tagged keratin
Rick Adams03Third trimester fetus of a Megachiroptera (fruit bat)
Michael Perny04Newborn rat cochlea with sensory hair cells (green) and spiral ganglion neurons (red)
Catarina Moura/Sumeet Mahajan/Richard Oreffo/Rahul Tare05Cartilage-like tissue grown in the lab using bone stem cells (collagen fibers in green and fat deposits in red)
Csaba Pintér06Phyllobius roboretanus (weevil)
Steven Simon07Plastic fracturing on a credit card hologram
Dean Lerman08Mold on a tomato
Havi Sarfaty09Senecio vulgaris (a flowering plant) seed head
Charles Krebs10Opiliones (daddy longlegs) eye
Levon Biss11Exaerete frontalis (orchid cuckoo bee) from the collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
David Millard12Common Mestra butterfly (Mestra amymone) eggs, laid on a leaf of a noseburn plant
Jean-Marc Babalian13Living Volvox algae releasing its daughter colonies
Marek Miś14Parus major (titmouse) down feather
Ryo Egawa15Individually labeled axons in an embryonic chick ciliary ganglion
Christian Gautier16Synapta (sea-cucumber) skin
Dylan Burnette17Embryonic body wall from a developing Mus musculus (mouse)
Tracy Scott18Aspergillus flavus (fungus) and yeast colony from soil
Harald K. Andersen19Dyed human hair
David A. Johnston20Lily pollen
