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    Nikon's Small World Contest 2012: Life as you've never seen it

    Nikon's annual Small World Competition showcases the year's best photography through the eye of a microscope. Here are the top 20 of 2012 and vote for your favorite on Facebook.

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    Image of Distinction: House Spider Harold Taylor Kensworth, Dunstable, United KingdomImage Stacking, 30x
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    20th Place: Embryos of the species Molossus rufus (black mastiff bat) Dorit Hockman Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom Brightfield
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    19th Place: Floral primordia of Allium sativum (garlic) Dr. Somayeh Naghiloo Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Tabriz Tabriz, IranEpi-Illumination
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    18th Place: Coral sand Dr. David Maitland www.davidmaitland.com Feltwell, United KingdomBrightfield, 100x
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    17th Place: Stinging nettle trichome on leaf vein Charles Krebs Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington, USATransmitted Light, 100x
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    16th Place: Fossilized Turitella agate containing Elimia tenera (freshwater snails) and ostracods (seed shrimp) Douglas Moore University Relations & Communications/Geology University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USAStereomicroscopy, 7x
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    15th Place: Section of a Coccinella (ladybug) leg Andrea Genre Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology University of Turin Turin, ItalyConfocal, 10x
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    14th Place: Pistil of Adenium obesum José R. Almodóvar Rivera University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Biology Department Mayaguez Puerto Rico, USAImage Stacking, 10x
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    13th Place: Sonderia sp. (a ciliate that preys upon various algae, diatoms, and cyanobacteria) Dr. Diana Lipscomb Department of Biological Sciences George Washington University Washington, District of Columbia, USANomarski Interference Contrast, 400x
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    12th Place: Cells sprout from dextran beads embedded in fibrin gel Esra Guc École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, SwitzerlandFluorescence, Confocal, 200x
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    11th Place: Tip of the gut of a Drosophila melanogaster larva  Jessica Von Stetina Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAConfocal, 25x
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    10th Place: Brittle star Dr. Alvaro Migotto University of São Paulo Centro de Biologia Marinha São Paulo, BrazilStereomicroscopy, Darkfield, 8x
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    9th Place: Myrmica sp. (ant) carrying its larva Geir Drange Asker, NorwayReflected Light, Image Stacking, 5x
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    8th Place: Pleurobrachia sp. (sea gooseberry) larva Gerd A. Guenther Düsseldorf, GermanyDifferential Interference Contrast, 500x
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    7th Place: Eye organ of a fruit fly larva Dr. Michael John Bridge HSC Core Research Facilities - Cell Imaging Lab University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USAConfocal, 60x
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    6th Place: Cosmarium sp. (desmid) near a Sphagnum sp. leaf Marek Mis Marek Mis Photography Suwalki, PolandPolarized Light, 100x
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    5th Place: Cacoxenite (mineral) from La Paloma Mine, Spain Honorio Cócera-La Parra Museum of Geology, Department of Geology University of Valencia Valencia, SpainTransmitted Light, 18x
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    4th Place: Drosophila melanogaster visual system halfway through pupal development, showing retina (gold), photoreceptor axons (blue), and brain (green) Dr. W. Ryan Williamson Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Ashburn, Virginia, USAConfocal, 1500x
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    3rd Place: Human bone cancer (osteosarcoma) showing actin filaments (purple), mitochondria (yellow), and DNA (blue) Dr. Dylan Burnette National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland, USA Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM), 63x  
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    2nd Place: Live newborn lynx spiderlings Walter Piorkowski South Beloit, Illinois, USA Reflected Light, Fiber Optics, Image Stacking, 6x
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    1st Place: The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo Dr. Jennifer L. Peters and Dr. Michael R. Taylor St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, Tennessee USAConfocal, 20x
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    Nikon's Small World Contest 2012: Life as you've never seen it

    Nikon's annual Small World Competition showcases the year's best photography through the eye of a microscope. Here are the top 20 of 2012 and vote for your favorite on Facebook.

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