Pig’s eyeballs and bloody dove: the best science photos of the 2017
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