Highly Commended awards are given where the image or video has particular merit and just misses out on being the winner of a category.
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Calcium transients from a contracting cardiomyocyte
This video (see below) shows the way calcium is released on a beat-to-beat basis in a single myocyte out of millions that contribute to contraction of the whole heart.
It was taken down the eyepiece of the Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope.
Fetal sheep plasma-derived extracellular vesicles
Islet of Langerhans in sheep. Insulin Beta-cell (yellow), Glucagon alpha-cells (pink), and Somatostatin delta-cells (blue)
This image was entered under the Confocal Microscopy category however it is actually a super-resolution image acquired on the BIRU's newest system, the Abberior Facility Line Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscope. We look forward to seeing more entries acquired on this system in 2022.
'Blue and Yellow Nebula'
Breaking through optical resolution barriers. Unraveling layered aggregate pathology in the human brain. The image was acquired on the Abberior STED microscope.
