Gallery: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year

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    9th Place ---------- *Ctenocephalides canis* (flea) (20X) Fluorescence Duane Harland, AgResearch Ltd. Lincoln, New Zealand
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    8th Place ---------- Cacoxenite (mineral) (18X), Reflected light Honorio Cocera-La Parra, Geology Museum, University of Valencia Benetusser, Valencia, Spain
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    7th Place ---------- Endothelial cell attached to synthetic microfibers, stained with microtubules, F-actin and nuclei (2500X), Fluorescence, Confocal Yongli Shan, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas
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    6th Place ---------- *Martensia sp.* (red seaweed), living specimen (40X), Brightfield John Huisman, Murdoch University, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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    5th Place ---------- *Strelitzia reginae* (bird of paradise) seed (10X) Darkfield Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
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    4th Place ---------- Wasp nest (10X), Extended Depth of Field Stereomicroscopy Riccardo Taiariol La Spezia, SP, Italy
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    3rd Place ---------- Zebrafish olfactory bulbs (250X), Confocal Oliver Braubach, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • 02otsuna
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    2nd Place ---------- 5-day old zebrafish head (20X), Confocal Dr. Hideo Otsuna, University of Utah Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 10wang
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    10th Place ----------- Crystallized soy sauce (16X), Reflected and Transmitted Light Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium Beijing, China
  • 11andrews
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    11th Place ----------- Telophase HeLa (cancer) cells expressing Aurora B-EGFP (green) (100X), Deconvolution Paul D. Andrews, University of Dundee Dundee, Scotland, UK
  • 12rouse
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    12th Place ----------- Juvenile bivalve mollusc, *Lima sp.* (10X), Darkfield Gregory Rouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, California
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    20th Place ----------- Crystallized melt of sulfur and acetanilide (10X), Transmitted John Hart, Hart3D Films and Deptartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Univ. Colorado, Boulder Boulder, Colorado
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    19th Place ----------- Wistar rat retina outlining the retinal vessel network and associated communication channels (100X), Confocal Cameron Johnson, The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
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    18th Place ----------- Soap film (150X), Incident Brightfield Gerd Guenther Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
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