The Year’s Most Stunning Medical Images

Winning Fly Wellcome

While these images were captured by scientists, you might as well classify them as art. They’re just as stunning, strange and thought-provoking as a masterpiece on canvas. The Wellcome Trust has just announced the 22 winners of its Image Awards, one of which is the fly [left] perched on some sugar crystals.

Other shots picked include red blood cells seeping out of a ruptured vessel, a circle of DNA, a mouse embryo with internal structures revealed, a field of red blood cells that look disconcertingly like candy, and—this one is much stranger than it sounds—crystals of oxidized vitamin C. Click here to have a look at the kinds of things today’s scientists see when they peer through the lens, or, more likely, study their computer screens.

Via MedGadget