Culture-grown muscle stem cells from mice, which have fused together to form myotubes (some of them flurorescently labelled in green), showing cell nuclei (blue), and distinct striations (red)KEVIN MURACH, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESThis image was a winner of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology’s 2017 BioArt Contest.

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