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Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2023 Muscle Maker

24 October 2023

Muscle Maker

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 9th place Vaibhav Deshmukh of Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Houston, Texas, USA with an image of the cytoskeleton of a dividing myoblast showing tubulin (cyan), F-actin (orange) and the nucleus (magenta) made using fluorescence and structured illumination microscopy (SIM) at 63X objective lens magnification

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