Friday 19 November 2010

Pretty Microscope Pictures: Olympus Bioscapes Digital Photocompetition

1st Place 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition: Eyes of daddy longlegs. A frontal section of Phalangium opilio eyes. The lenses, retinasand optic nerves are visible. The image is a depth color-coded projection of a confocal image stack. (Igor Siwanowicz, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany)