Winners of the Nikon's annual Small World competition represent the best in through-the-microscope photography
Posted 10.08.2009 at 9:00 am
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1st Place: Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) anther (20x): This strangely glowing, somewhat translucent shot captures the anther of a thale cress, an organism whose genome was fully sequenced in 2000. According to photographer and research scientist Dr. Heiti Paves, the photo has no scientific significance—it just happened to be the most artistic in his pile of thousands. Still, the thale cress is known to be a model organism in plant biology. Courtesy Nikon Small World Photo Micrography Competition: Photographed by Dr. Heiti Paves
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great article
Can you say trippy.
thanks god for all the natural arts you created around us
Wow, that is amazing dude. Way cool stuff indeed! Best pics I ever seen!.
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Wow all i can say is wow
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