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Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2023 Model Portrait

23 October 2023

Model Portrait

Results of the Nikon Small World Competition are out! BPoD is delighted to feature a selection of those images coming from the world of biomedicine

In 7th Place Dr. Grigorii Timin & Dr. Michel Milinkovitch of the University of Geneva, Department of Genetics and Evolution, Geneva, Switzerland with this image of a mouse embryo made using light-sheet microscopy at 4X (objective lens magnification)

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