For the 48th time, Nikon has held its Small World Photomicrography Competition and the winners of the year 2022 have already been announced!
The awards are celebrating the mesmerizing microscopic world and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography, scientists and enthusiasts alike, through the light microscope.
Scroll down for the stunning photographs and don't forget to upvote your favorite ones!
For more mesmerizing images, check out the winners of previous contests (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020)!
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#1 5th Place - Alison Pollack
"Slime mold (Lamproderma)." San Anselmo, California, USA
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The winner of this year's competition is Grigorii Timin, supervised by Dr. Michel Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva with the image of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko. "Masterfully blending imaging technology and artistic creativity, Timin utilized high-resolution microscopy and image-stitching to capture this species of Phelsuma grandis day gecko."
#2 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas
"Ant (Camponotus)." Tauragė, Lithuania
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#3 10th Place - Murat Öztürk
"A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle." Ankara, Turkey
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#4 Image Of Distinction - Xinpei Zhang
"Alaskan sand." Yu Cheng, Ya'an, China
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#5 Image Of Distinction - Yuan Ji
"Butterfly scales." World Expo Museum Shanghai, China
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#6 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Stephen S. Nagy
"Diatoms arranged in an exhibition rosette by Klaus D. Kemp." Montana Diatoms Helena, Montana, USA
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#7 Honorable Mention - Sebastian Sparenga
"Recrystallized Vitamin C." McCrone Research Institute Chicago, Illinois, USA
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#8 8th Place - Dr. Nathanaël Prunet
"Growing tip of a red algae." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Department of Biology
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#9 1st Place - Grigorii Timin, Dr. Michel Milinkovitch
"Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)." University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Department of Genetics and Evolution
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#10 Honorable Mention - Dr. Laurent Formery
"Two-month old juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata)." University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
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#11 11th Place - Ye Fei Zhang
"Moth eggs." Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China
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#12 Image Of Distinction - Anne-Françoise Tasnier
"Wood cells." Royal Museum for Central Africa Department of Wood Biology Tervuren, Belgium
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#13 13th Place - Randy Fullbright
"Agatized dinosaur bone." Fullbright Studio Vernal, Utah, USA
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#14 Honorable Mention - Ye Fei Zhang
"Butterfly egg." Jiang Yin, Jiangsu, China
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#15 Image Of Distinction - Adolfo Ruiz De Segovia
"Drops of olive oil in water." Particular Madrid, Spain
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#16 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Marko Pende
"Transgenic axolotl (CNP:GFP;β3Tubulin:mCherry) showing components of the nervous system. CNP+ Schwann cells (cyan) and axons (magenta)." MDI Biological Laboratory Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
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#17 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Andrew Posselt
"Bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax)." University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Surgery Mill Valley, California, USA
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#18 Image Of Distinction - Dr. John Hart
"Amino acid crystals (L-glutamine and beta-alanine)." University of Colorado Boulder Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Boulder, Colorado, USA
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#19 4th Place - Dr. Andrew Posselt
"Long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (Pholcus phalangioides)." University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mill Valley, California, USA Department of Surgery
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#20 6th Place - Ole Bielfeldt
"Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down." Macrofying Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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#21 14th Place - Nadia Efimova
"Differentiated cultured mouse myoblasts with lysosomes (cyan/green), nuclei (yellow), F-actin (magenta)." Amicus Therapeutics Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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#22 Image Of Distinction - Teresa Zgoda
"Eyeshadow cosmetic." Arvada, Colorado, USA
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#23 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Keat Ying Chan
"Epithelial cells of a palmskin zebrafish larva." Academia Sinica Chen-Hui Chen's Lab Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology Taipei, Taiwan
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#24 Image Of Distinction - Gabriel Fernández Fernández Jorge Alberto
"Four o'clock flower (Mirabilis jalapa)." San Luis, Argentina
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#25 Image Of Distinction - Ahmad Fauzan
"Black and white human hair." Macro Depok (MD) Department of Engineering Jakarta, Indonesia
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#26 Image Of Distinction - Yoshihiro Tamaru
"Tail of a planktonic crustacean (Oithona brevicornis)." Hino, Tokyo, Japan
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#27 Honorable Mention - Alison Pollack
"Slime mold (Didymium clavus)." San Anselmo, California, USA
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#28 Image Of Distinction - Michael Landgrebe
"Moss spore capsule (sporangium)." Berlin, Germany
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#29 Honorable Mention - Karl Gaff
"Midge larva collected from a freshwater pond." Dublin, Ireland
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#30 Honorable Mention - Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
"Radula (rasping tongue) of a marine snail (Turbinidae family)." Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Ashburn, Virginia, USA Janelia Research Campus
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#31 Image Of Distinction - Karl Deckart
"Dental drill bit studded with diamond chips." Eckental, Bavaria, Germany
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#32 16th Place - Dr. Olivier Leroux
"Longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip." Ghent University, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium Department of Biology & Department of Plants and Crops
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#33 Image Of Distinction - Anatoly Mikhaltsov
"Cross section of a leaf of dune grass (Ammophila arenaria)." Children’s Ecological and Biological Center Department of Botany Omsk, Russia
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#34 Image Of Distinction - Yousef Al Habshi
"Red speckled jewel beetle (Chrysochroa buqueti rugicollis)." Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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#35 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Honor Glenn
"Human lung cell infected with coronavirus." Arizona State University Biodesign Institute Biodesign Imaging Facility, Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy Tempe, Arizona, USA
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#36 15th Place - Dr. Ziad El-Zaatari
"Cross sections of normal human colon epithelial crypts." Houston Methodist Hospital Houston, Texas, USA
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#37 Honorable Mention - Jan Rosenboom
"Diatom (Actinoptychus sp.)." Rostock, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany
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#38 Honorable Mention - Wim Van Egmond
"Larva of an anemone, found in marine plankton." Micropolitan Museum Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
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#39 Image Of Distinction - Frank Fox
"Hibiscus flower with pollen." Trier University of Applied Sciences Konz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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#40 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Julien Resseguier
"Artery of an Atlantic salmon filled with nucleated red blood cells." University of Oslo Department of Biosciences / Immunology Oslo, Viken, Norway
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#41 Image Of Distinction - Enrico Bonino
"Winged ant encased in approximately 20 million-year-old Dominican amber." Liège, Belgium
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#42 Image Of Distinction - Pablo Piedra
"Stinger of a small paper wasp (Vespidae Protopolybia)." La Fortuna de San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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#43 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Olivier Leroux
"Stem section of hemp (Cannabis sativa)." Ghent University Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
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#44 12th Place - Brett M. Lewis
"Autofluorescence of a single coral polyp (approx. 1 mm)." Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science
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#45 7th Place - Dr. Jianqun Gao, Prof. Glenda Halliday
"Human neurons derived from neural stem cells (NSCs)." University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Central Clinical School Professor Glenda Halliday's Lab
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#46 18th Place - Dr. Julien Resseguier
"Network of macrophages (white blood cells) of an adult zebrafish intestine." University of Oslo, Oslo, Viken, Norway Department of Biosciences / Immunology
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#47 Honorable Mention - Dr. Andrea Tedeschi
"Murine sensory-motor cortex following mild traumatic brain injury in a transgenic mouse (expressing Thy1-GFP)." The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Wexner Medical Center Department of Neuroscience
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#48 20th Place - Hui Lin, Dr. Kim Mcbride
"Human cardiomyocytes (heart cells) derived from induced pluripotent stem cells." Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA Center for Cardiovascular Research
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#49 Image Of Distinction - Layra G. Cintrón-Rivera
"Zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo head 72 hours after fertilization." Brown University Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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#50 Honorable Mention -Dr. Amy Engevik
"Intestinal villi (brush border in magenta)." Medical University of South Carolina Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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#51 Honorable Mention - Gerd Günther
"Young stem of garden bamboo (Fargesia sp.)." Düsseldorf, Germany
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#52 Image Of Distinction - Charles B. Krebs
"Licomopha diatoms attached to red alga." Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington, USA
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#53 Image Of Distinction - Dr. David Maitland
"Tip of Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana). Chlorophyll fluoresces red, lignin blue." Feltwell, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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#54 3rd Place - Satu Paavonsalo, Dr. Sinem Karaman
"Blood vessel networks in the intestine of an adult mouse." University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, Faculty of Medicine
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#55 Image Of Distinction - Satu Paavonsalo, Dr. Sinem Karaman
"Blood vessels in the diaphragm of a 9-day-old mouse pup." University of Helsinki Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, Faculty of Medicine Helsinki, Finland
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#56 Image Of Distinction - Joe Mckellar
"Human lung cell expressing antiviral Mx1 protein (green), microtubules (cyan) and nuclei (orange)." The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Université de Montpellier (UM) Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier (IRIM) Montpellier, Hérault, France
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#57 9th Place - Dr. Marek Sutkowski
"Liquid crystal mixture (smectic Felix 015)." Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics
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#58 Image Of Distinction - Brian J. Ford
"Embryo of a male rat." Rothay House Eastrea, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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#59 Image Of Distinction - Henri Koskinen
"Disco fungus (Lachnum clandestinum) growing on a raspberry (Rubus idaeus)." Helsinki, Uudenmaan lääni, Finland
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#60 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Andrew Moore
"3D rendering of the endoplasmic reticulum in a tissue culture cell." Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus Ashburn, Virginia, USA
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#61 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Zhigang Zheng
"Staff sergeant butterfly eggs (Athyma selenophora)." Zhuhai Photographers Association Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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#62 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Jason Hill
"Mouse retina." Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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#63 Image Of Distinction - Nabodita Sinha, Dr. Ashwani Thakur
"Spokes of amino acid." Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Department of Biological Science and Bioengineering Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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#64 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Philippe P. Laissue
"Living polyps of a reef-building lobe coral (Porites lobata)." University of Essex School of Life Sciences Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
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#65 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Arandeep S. Dhanda
"Pathogenic Shigella flexneri bacteria spreading outwards from an infected cell." Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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#66 19th Place - Dr. Tagide Decarvalho
"Bacterial biofilm on a human tongue cell." University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, Maryland, USA Keith R. Porter Imaging Facility
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#67 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Alejandra Bosco Dr. Monica L. Vetter
"Mouse cornea vasculature (arteries, veins and lymphatics)." University of Utah Department of Neurobiology Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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#68 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Andrew Moore
"Montage of human cells in different stages of mitosis. Chromosomes (orange) and microtubules (white) are shown." Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus Ashburn, Virginia, USA
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#69 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Eric Peterman, Jeff Rasmussen
"Nerve network within the skin of zebrafish (Danio rerio) scales. Different colors depict the different planes and depth of the nerves in individual scales." University of Washington Department of Biology Seattle, Washington, USA
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#70 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Andrea Tedeschi
"3D imaging of the vasculature network in an adult mouse spinal cord." The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Department of Neuroscience Columbus, Ohio, USA
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#71 Honorable Mention - Bre Hewitt
"Migrating human fibroblast stained for the Golgi (orange), the actin cytoskeleton (magenta), and the nucleus (cyan)." Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Department of Biology
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#72 17th Place - Dr. Daniel Wehner Julia Kolb
"Tail fin of a zebrafish larva with peripheral nerves (green) and extracellular matrix (violet)." Max Planck Institue for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany Department of Biological Optomechanics
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#73 Honorable Mention - Dr. Dylan T. Burnette
"A crawling cell." Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
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#74 2nd Place - Caleb Dawson
"Breast tissue showing contractile myoepithelial cells wrapped around milk-producing alveoli." WEHI, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Immunology
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#75 Image Of Distinction - Karl Gaff
"Midge fly larva." Dublin, Ireland
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#76 Image Of Distinction - Yousef Al Habshi
"Section of a damselfly (Odonata Neurobasis chinensis)." Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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#77 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Csaba László Pintér
"European pear rust fungus (Gymnosporangium fuscum), colony of ecidio." Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Georgikon Faculty Department of Plant Protection Keszthely, Zala, Hungary
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#78 Image Of Distinction - Kamryn Gerner-Mauro Dr. Jichao Chen
"Lung of a 16.5 day old embryonic mouse with airways labeled by SOX2 (pink) and epithelial progenitors by SOX9 (green)." The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Pulmonary Medicine Houston, Texas, USA
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#79 Image Of Distinction - Harikumar R. Suma, Prof. Dr. Pierre Stallforth
"Bacterial colony." Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) Department of Paleobiotechnology Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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#80 Image Of Distinction - Layra G. Cintrón-Rivera
"Developing nervous system of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) six days after fertilization." Brown University Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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#81 Image Of Distinction - Nikky Corthout, Jasper Timmerman
"Clustered iPSC derived neurons." VIB (Flanders Institute of Biotechnology) Center for Brain and Disease Research Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
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#82 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Carlo Donato Caiaffa De Carvalho, Dr. Richard Finnell, Dr. Bogdan Wlodarcyk, Dr. Linda Lin
"Embryonic mouse." Baylor College of Medicine Center for Precision Environmental Health Houston, Texas, USA
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#83 Honorable Mention - Reuben Philip
"A cell with extra centrosomes beginning to divide." Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
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#84 Image Of Distinction - Nadia Efimova
"African green monkey kidney cells (COS-7) with Golgi (blue), lysosomes (green), actin cytoskeleton (magenta) and nuclei (yellow)." Amicus Therapeutics Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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#85 Image Of Distinction - Karie Holtermann, Payal Sarkar
"Digital PCR plate set up with RNA extracted from viruses in wastewater sludge (multiplexed with primer probes of SARS-CoV2, spiked BCoV, and PMMoV)." City of San Jose Regional Wastewater Lab San Jose, California, USA
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#86 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Francisco Lázaro-Diéguez
"Liver cells (hepatocytes)." Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York, USA
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#87 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Tong Zhang
"A double nuclei Bovine Pulmonary Artery Endothelial (BPAE) cell." Northwestern University Biological Imaging Facility Evanston, Illinois, USA
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#88 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Michelle Giedt
"Nurse cell in a developing fruit fly (Drosophila) follicle." University of Iowa Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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#89 Honorable Mention - Dr. Zhiguo He
"The actomyosin network at the apical pole of human corneal endothelial cells (revealed by immunofluorescence)." University Jean Monnet School of Medicine Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, Rhône-Alpes, France
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#90 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Guillermo López López
"Peruvian lily (Alstroemeria) stamens." Alicante, Spain
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#91 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Aurelia Mapps
"Whole-mounted adult mouse heart." Johns Hopkins University Department of Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology and Biophysical Chemistry Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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#92 Image Of Distinction - Danny J. Sanchez
"Etch tube in Brazilian quartz with iron oxide staining." Mineralien LLC Valley Village, California, USA
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