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BioScapes 2008 winners: the best microscopy images of the year
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This year's winning photo is this close up image of a fairy fly wasp.
Olympus America Inc has announced its 2008 winners of the BioScapes Contest. This competition highlights the best microscopy images taken by scientists throughout the year. 2008’s pictures range from an illuminating picture of a wasp to a stunning image of the zebra fish nerve structures. All the images are beautiful and sometimes nearly psychedelic in quality.
From the Olympus website, Osamu Joji, Olympus America's Vice President and General Manager for the Scientific Equipment Group, had this to say about the competition:
“Microscope images forge an extraordinary bond between science and art. We founded this competition to focus on the fascinating stories coming out of today's life science research laboratories. The thousands of images that people have shared with the competition over the years reflect some of the most exciting work going on in research today - work that can help shed light on the living universe and ultimately save lives. We look at BioScapes and these beautiful images as sources of education and inspiration to us and the world."
A contest such as this is especially important this year when the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the scientists behind green fluorescent proteins (GFP), one of the most important tools used in microscopy images. In fact, this year’s 4th place winner used Brainbow, a wonderfully unique adaptation of GFP.
While the Bioscapes website has higher quality images (as well as all of the honorable mention photos),Scientific American offers a slide show with more details about the images themselves. Either way, be sure to check out the gallery of this year’s winners.
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