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Illustration of pollen grains being released from a flower. Wellcome Image Awards winner.
by Maurizio De Angelis. Pollen grains: Illustration of pollen grains being released from a flower. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.

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.

Polarized light micrograph of cat skin with hair, whiskers and blood supply. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

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.

Macroscopic photo of mouse retina. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

Exhibitions of the winning images opened from 16 March 2017 in venues across the UK, Europe and Africa, including:

Macrophoto of neural stem cells. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

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.

Beautiful infographic showing data extracted from tweets containing the hashtag #BreastCancer. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

To see the full selection of winning Wellcome Image Awards pictures, see www.wellcomeimageawards.org.

Macrophotos of developing spinal cord. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

Baby Hawaiian bobtail squid. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

Zebrafish embryo modified for study of eye development. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

Macrophoto of DNA in a human lung cell. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

Nerve fibers in a human. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

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Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo of small blue beads. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

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Macrophoto of 9 colorful mouse placentas in a pinwheel pattern. Wellcome Image Awards winner.

IMAGE CREDITS:

  1. Image: by Maurizio De Angelis. Pollen grains: Illustration of pollen grains being released from a flower. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  2. Image: by David Linstead. A polarized light micrograph of a section of cat skin. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  3. Image: by Gabriel Luna. Neuroscience Research Institute. Surface of a mouse retina. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  4. Image: by Collin Edington and Iris Lee. MIT. Neural stem cells. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  5. 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.
  6. Image: by Gabriel Galea. University College London. Developing spinal cord. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  7. Image: by Mark R. Smith. Macroscopic Solutions. A baby Hawaiian bobtail squid. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  8. 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.
  9. Image: by Ezequiel Miron. Unravelled DNA in a human lung cell. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  10. Image: by Alfred Anwander and Max Planck. Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Pathways in the human brain. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
  11. Image: by Michael Northrop. Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
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  13. Image: by Suchita Nadkarni. Nine colorful mouse placentas. Courtesy of Wellcome Image Awards.
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