BEST MOST BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE PHOTOS
WELLCOME IMAGE AWARD
Science is beautiful on so many levels. Capturing its beauty takes scientific knowledge, technical skill, and artistry. The Wellcome Image Awards celebrates the convergence of these masteries. Now in its 20th year, the Awards serve up beauty in biomedical science, in particular, with photography, illustration, super-resolution microscopy, & medical scans.
This year, the Julie Dorrington Award was presented for outstanding photography in a clinical environment. Named after one of the founders of the Wellcome Images clinical collection, this Award honours Julie’s contribution to Wellcome and to the clinical photography profession and the service it provides to medicine and medical education.
Exhibitions of the winning images opened from 16 March 2017 in venues across the UK, Europe and Africa, including:
This year’s images include a beautiful illustration of Nobel laureate and neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, a glimpse at the intricate system of blood vessels inside an African Grey Parrot, and a fascinating visualisation of Twitter conversations about breast cancer.
To see the full selection of winning Wellcome Image Awards pictures, see www.wellcomeimageawards.org.
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IMAGE CREDITS:
- Image: by Maurizio De Angelis. Pollen grains: Illustration of pollen grains being released from a flower. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by David Linstead. A polarized light micrograph of a section of cat skin. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Gabriel Luna. Neuroscience Research Institute. Surface of a mouse retina. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Collin Edington and Iris Lee. MIT. Neural stem cells. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Eric Clarke, Richard Arnett and Jane Burns. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Graphical visualization of data extracted from tweets containing the hashtag #BreastCancer. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Gabriel Galea. University College London. Developing spinal cord. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Mark R. Smith. Macroscopic Solutions. A baby Hawaiian bobtail squid. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Ingrid Lekk and Steve Wilson. University College London. This four-day-old zebrafish embryo has been modified by scientists carrying out a study into the development of the eye. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Ezequiel Miron. Unravelled DNA in a human lung cell. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Alfred Anwander and Max Planck. Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Pathways in the human brain. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
- Image: by Michael Northrop. Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
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- Image: by Suchita Nadkarni. Nine colorful mouse placentas. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.