The Top 10 Extraordinary Microscope Images from Olympus

10 - This is the 10th place image, British photographer Laurie Knight, shows the face of Weevil (Curculio can nucum or Curculio glandium). The image was captured using the technique known as light episkopický lighting.

Olympus Digital Imaging BioScapes International awards in the world, the most remarkable images of microscopic objects Life Science.

9 - Wildflower seeds

China Yanping Wang won ninth place in 2010, Olympus BioScapes competition for this picture wildflower seeds, sensing the reflected light beam.

8 - foot Beetle

German researcher Jan Michels' eighth place image shows a side view of the adhesive pads on its feet beetle (Clytus sp).. The view was captured using autofluorescence.

7 - damselfly eye

Germany Igor Siwanowicz won seventh place in the competition for the Olympus BioScapes look into the eye damselfly. This series of projection images of confocal microscopy shows a regular, crystal-style architecture of the eye Enallagma cyathigerum. The area on the slide is about 0.6 to 0.8 mm or 0.02 to 0.03 inches.

6. Spirogyra

Polish biotechnology researcher Jerzy governor this extreme close-up of algae Spirogyra use of light and polarized light. Photomicrograph won sixth place in the 2010 prize in the competition Olympus BioScapes.

5. Primordium

This image from Iranian gardener M. Reza Dadpour shows primordium (BUD) from weed flowers Tribulus sp. during the last stages of development. More than 100 images, aimed at different depths, was composed for the production of this perspective. The picture won fifth place in 2010, Olympus BioScapes competition.

4. Diatoms

Fan-shaped diatoms, the second Licmophora juegensii, with the latch on red algae in the fourth picture Wolfgang Bettighofer Germany. Licmophora cells are able to move and supported through a light sensor to find a place suitable lighting. Then, create sticky stems that hold them connected with their home base. Samples were collected from brackish water in the Baltic Sea.

3. Coral

In third place in the competition image shows Olympus BioScapes solitary coral (Fungi sp.). Finger tips, so acrospheres, are visibly better. This image was made by James Nicholson, coral researcher in South Carolina.

2. Rat brain

California's Thomas Deerinck took second place in the competition Olympus BioScapes this file structure known as the hippocampus in the rat brain. Tissue distribution detect contaminated by glial cells (blue), neurofilaments (green) and cell nucleus (yellow).

1. Daddy Longlegs

Igor Siwanowicz Germany won first place in the competition Olympus BioScapes to this picture, which shows the spider's eyes bug known as Daddy Longlegs or Harvestman. The image is color coded to reflect the depth and shows that the lens (two large ovals), retina and optic nerve.

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