Life is beautiful at all scales, from big to small. The beauty of this year’s winner of the NikonSmallWorld photo contest is hidden beneath literal gecko scales.
Musclelike cells colored yellow and magenta wrap around milk-producing structures in breast tissue, shown at 40 times magnification. The yellow branch is a blood vessel that supplies the hormone oxytocin when a baby breastfeeds.From a distance this photograph may look like a cluster of grapes. But each orb is a sprawling clump of cells inside breast tissue.
The cells respond to the hormone oxytocin, Dawson says. Oxytocin is released during breastfeeding and helps squeeze milk out of the spheres, called alveoli. Such images of lactating breast tissue can help researchers figure out how immune cells keep breast tissue and the babies it can feed healthy. Unburned pieces of carbon drift away from an extinguished candle in this photograph, magnified 2.5 times normal size.Ole Bielfeldt had to be quick to capture the last gasp of an extinguished candle.
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