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Photos: Nikon's Small World Contest Winners Reveal Microscopic Magnificence

By Eliza Strickland | October 13, 2010 9:04 am
1st Place: Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) heart (100X)
2nd Place: 5-day-old zebrafish head (20X)
3rd Place: Zebrafish olfactory bulbs (250X)
7th Place: Endothelial cell attached to synthetic microfibers, stained with microtubules, F-actin and nuclei (2500X)
8th Place: Cacoxenite (mineral) (18X)
9th Place: Ctenocephalides canis (flea) (20X)
10th Place: Crystallized soy sauce (16X)
11th Place: Telophase HeLa (cancer) cells expressing Aurora B-EGFP (green) (100X)
14th Place: Spiral vessels from banana plant stem (32X)
15th Place: Divaricatic acid from Evernia divaricata (lichen), recrystallized from acetone (10X)
17th Place: Ichneumon wasp compound eye and antenna base (40X)
18th Place: Soap film (150X)
20th Place: Crystallized melt of sulfur and acetanilide (10X)

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