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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'Rat brain gets lit'
In-vivo imaging of the brain allows investigation of neural niches impacted by assaults on the central nervous system. The time-lapse video displays the spontaneous neural firing of a rat's brain imaged through its skull. The fluorescence images are captured using a custom-built and cost-effective (<10000 USD) mesoscope, a large field of view widefield microscope.
'Oil spill'
A transverse section of a heart from an aging female spontaneously hypertensive rat, fluorescently labelled with phalloidin, WGA and DAPI.
Imaged with a Nikon Eclipse E400 microscope.
'Uvigerina peregrina (benthic foraminifera)'
Intact whole shell
Imaged on the Hitachi TM3030 Plus SEM at 600x magnification
'α-synuclein aggregates in multiple system atrophy'
Each label detects different epitopes of the α-synuclein protein with the nuclei stained with Hoechst (blue).
Imaged at 63x with the Airyscan module on the Zeiss LSM 800 Airyscan confocal microscope
'Arapaima'
Arapaima are the world’s largest air breathing fish, reaching 2.5m in length, and live in piranha-rich Amazonian waters.
Upper image: Transparent surface rendering of Arapaima with internal organs as coloured surfaces.
Lower 3 images are lateral, superior and inferior views of protective skull and head
bones.
