2006 biomedical image award nominees.

July 19, 2006 12:42 AM

2006 biomedical image award nominees.
posted by delmoi (10 comments total)

Spotting of a 'face' almost imminent.
posted by Gyan at 1:05 AM on July 19, 2006

Image 15 text: Side and top views of Vaginicola, a single-celled creature found in pond water. The cell (green in the bottom image) secretes and lives within a protective casing, called a lorica, into which it can contract. The cell is attached to the bottom of the lorica and has hair-like cilia at the end, which it uses for feeding.
Colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph by David Furness.
B0005972/3

Vaginicola. Refreshing. I am not an adolescent boy, I swear.
posted by eegphalanges at 1:10 AM on July 19, 2006

I saw the aspirin crystals image printed in a newspaper a few days ago. Really didn't do it justice.

The mp3 links on the side are a rather brilliant inclusion. They need to include this into more annual image awards. I'd love to hear what the photgraphers have to say about their images.

This is good. Thanks!
posted by slimepuppy at 1:10 AM on July 19, 2006

From the thumbnails the only one that stands out is the blood-engorged mosquito. But the Marrow stem is pretty stylin', and the Bread mould looks like something out of Nausicaä (for obvious reasons).

I don't care for the blacklight-poster false color in pretty much all the rest of them. (false color doesn't have to be ugly!)
posted by aubilenon at 1:13 AM on July 19, 2006

Beautiful pictures. Someone should set up a quiz with the stem cell, the nerve cell, and the cancer cell and see how many people can pick out which is granted rights under American law. I suspect I'd wrongly pick the cancer cell.
posted by scottreynen at 5:22 AM on July 19, 2006

Thanks, delmoi!
posted by Mental Wimp at 6:47 AM on July 19, 2006

Cool. Interesting that most of the images were taken with only a few techniques - fluorescence microscopy, light microscopy, electron microscopy.

scottreynen: Stem cells don't have rights; I think you're thinking of the embryo (human life!) from which stem cells can be derived. In any case, I don't think that embryos have any actual protection under law (that I know of, though some might like to change that.
posted by Joe Invisible at 8:00 AM on July 19, 2006

great post!
posted by casconed at 9:29 AM on July 19, 2006

That's a great idea, scottreynen.
posted by arcticwoman at 9:51 AM on July 19, 2006

If you're into this sort of thing you should check out Probes website which has photos they've taken. They make the dyes used to make these photos so pretty.
posted by pwb503 at 10:37 AM on July 19, 2006