Pig’s eyeballs and bloody dove: the best science photos of the 2017
Photo contest Wellcome Image Awards have collected the best pictures of 2017 from the field of medicine and biology.
Wellcome Image Award the prize. The winners are scientists, doctors, and photographers who reveal the science and life with the amazing imaging.
This year, in particular, the jury was struck by the blood vessels in the eye of the mini-pig. The diameter of the small vessels in 20 to 30 micrometers. Eye looks surreal, but is important in the study of “work” eyes.
Science is beautiful: The Wellcome Image Awards 2017.
See gallery: https://t.co/qnuRZ3OnF5@wellcomeimages #2017WIA pic.twitter.com/yVYLsKG9yU
— David Sim (@davidsim) March 6, 2017
Another picture shows the thermoregulation of a dove. Scientists are using CT scans with contrast “photographed” the blood vessels in the head of the bird and highlight them in red — got terrible “transparent” portrait of a pigeon without eyes, feathers, skin and muscles.
CT image by veterinarian Scott Echols .. the hectic lines are blood vessels in a pigeon”s head.
Via @clarachaissonhttps://t.co/UXu1wIM7Jz pic.twitter.com/8ginQqvJw0
— a_london_pigeon (@a_london_pigeon) March 5, 2017
The contest organizers do not miss another bird. In the picture Scott Echols (he revealed the ins and outs of a dove) shows a 3D-reconstruction of blood vessels African grey parrot. One of the most popular photos — portrait of the Hawaiian bobtailed squid.
This creature lives in the clean coastal waters of Hawaii and hunts at night. His feature — the “bottom lighting”, which he turns on at night and turns into invisibility. Emitted light is indistinguishable in brightness from the light of stars or moon. This “flashlight” are luminescent bacteria that live on the body of the squid. They also help the squid to configure the internal clock regulating sleep and wakefulness.
Science is beautiful: the Winners of the Wellcome Image Awards 2017 https://t.co/VkIgWQys6D pic.twitter.com/jF5Ywr8BsC
— The New Science (@NewScienceWrld) March 6, 2017
Series of three images titled “development of the spinal cord” in the embryo: in the picture on the right shows the neural tube, which develops into the brain in the spine and connected to other nerves, and the left surface of the ectoderm, which forms ultimately the skin and hair. The picture in the middle mesoderm, forming the internal organs.
Another winner was a painting by Italian neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini from the back. She holds in her hands a chemical flask, and her luxuriant hair straight out from the spine grows the “tree” of nerve cells. Levi-Montalcini —winner of the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine 1986, she got together with Stanley Cohen for the discovery of growth factors, particularly NGF. Another shot of — “rainbow of placenta” shows the change in the development of embryonic organ that can occur due to manipulation with the immune system of the mother.
Dr Nadkarni Congrats for winning the comp imaging at the WHRI 30th celebration @QMUL with placenta rainbow #SciArt pic.twitter.com/I3lS8sYxXC
— Neil Dufton (@neildufton) 23 Jun 2016