Wellcome Images, an open source of high quality medically relevant photos and illustrations, has announced the winners of its tenth annual Wellcome Image Awards. The contest aims to profile the best that the collection has gathered over the previous year and to highlight the quickly developing world of medical science.
Nineteen extraordinary images have been chosen by a panel of judges based on the ability of the picture to communicate the wonder and fascination of science. From capillary networks and liver cells to summer plankton and bird of paradise seeds, miniature worlds are explored through microscopy and electron micrographs. Cutting-edge techniques reveal the intricate nerve endings around our hair follicles, and the beautiful patterns in compact bone and aspirin crystals. The selected images are now on display at Wellcome Collection, as well as on the Image Awards website, which explains the stories behind the pictures: how the images were created, what they add to scientific understanding and why the judges picked them out as the best images this year.
To mark the tenth Wellcome Image Awards, two additional categories were included this year in photography and illustration.
There were also two special awards, one given to the makers of animations showing the intricate structure of a mouse’s head during development and the other for the unique capture of sensory nerve endings, both showing an astonishing level of detail and accuracy that has previously not been possible with conventional microscopy techniques.
Link: Wellcome Image Awards Winners’ Gallery…
Press release: Wellcome Image Awards reveal the stories behind science…
