Olympus BioScapes winners find art in microscopic life

16:47 21 November 2011

The 2011 Olympus BioScapes competition brings the beauty of micro-organisms out of the lab. Here is a gallery of our favourite images from the contest, including petite plankton, dinky Drosophila and miniscule mould spores.

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Hairy wheels

The fast-moving cilia, or hairs, that give this rotifer ? "wheel bearer" ? the illusion of rotating wheels are frozen in time in this winning image from the 2011 Olympus BioScapes competition. The cilia on the lobes of the rotifer Floscularia ringens gather food particles from the surrounding water and direct them toward its mouth. Charles Krebs of Issaquah, Washington, used a technique called differential interference contrast microscopy to make this image of the creature sitting in a self-made tube constructed from detritus.

(Image: Charles Krebs)

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