Nikon announced the winners of their Small World Photo Microscopy Competition – here are the top nine photos: Additional incotion: Stunning Dorsal View of a Zebrafish Wins Forty-Sixth Annual Nikon Small World Photo Microscopy Competition First Place, 2020 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition Dorsal view of bones and scales (blue) and lymphatic vessels (orange) in a juvenile zebrafish Posted on October 13, 2020 The colorful snapshot gives viewers an inside look at the zebrafish’s skeleton, lymphatic vessels. Nikon Instruments Inc. today announced the winners of the forty-sixth annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Daniel Castranova, assisted by Bakary Samasa while working in the lab of Dr. Brant Weinstein at the National Institutes of Health, took the top prize for his artfully rendered and technically immaculate photo of a juvenile zebrafish. The image is a dorsal view of the head of a fish with fluorescently “tagged” skeleton, scales (blue) and lymphatic system (orange), taken using confocal microscopy and image-stacking. This image is particularly significant because it was taken as part of an imaging effort that helped Castranova’s team make a groundbreaking discovery – zebrafish have lymphatic vessels inside their skull that were previously thought to occur only in mammals. Their occurrence in fish, a much easier subject to raise, experiment with, and photograph, could expedite and revolutionize research related to treatments for diseases that occur in the human brain, including cancer and Alzheimer’s. Castranova stitched together more than 350 individual images to create this single stunning visual. The image was acquired...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Sunday, 18 October, 2020