2012 Labbies | Video Finalists | Image Finalists
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Luis Bagatolli, a biophysicist at the University of Southern Denmark, captured this image of a giant unilamellar liposome (40 µm in diameter) using laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy. The liposome is composed of ceramide, cholesterol, and the glycerophospholipid POPC. The star shaped region is formed by a ceramide-enriched two-dimensional crystal embedded in the lipid bilayer.
This color enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a water bear (Macrobiotus sapiens) was captured by Eye of Science—a two-person team of photographer Oliver Meckes and biologist Nicole Ottawa. Water bears are tiny invertebrates that live in aquatic and semi-aquatic habitats such as lichens and damp moss.
This high resolution image of the hippocampal region of a mouse model of Down syndrome, submitted by Stanford University neurobiologist Ahmad Salehi, was featured on the cover of Biological ...
