Here are the 20 mind-blowing winning photos of the Nikon small world photomicrography competition 2022. The winner of this year’s competition is Grigorii Timin, supervised by Dr. Michel Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva with the image of an embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko. “Masterfully blending imaging technology and artistic creativity, Timin utilized high-resolution microscopy and image-stitching to capture this species of Phelsuma grandis day gecko.”

The awards are celebrating the mesmerizing microscopic world and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography, scientists and enthusiasts alike, through the light microscope. Here you can find top 20 photos from the competition, you can check full gallery from below link.

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#1 Embryonic hand of a Madagascar giant day gecko – 1st Place by Grigorii Timin, Dr. Michel Milinkovitch

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#2 Breast tissue showing contractile myoepithelial cells wrapped around milk-producing alveoli – 2nd Place by Caleb Dawson

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#3 Blood vessel networks in the intestine of an adult mouse – 3rd Place by Satu Paavonsalo, Dr. Sinem Karaman

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#4 Long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider – 4th Place by Dr. Andrew Posselt

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#5 Slime mold – 5th Place by Alison Pollack

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#6 Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down – 6th Place by Ole Bielfeldt

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#7 Human neurons derived from neural stem cells- 7th Place by Dr. Jianqun Gao, Prof. Glenda Halliday

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#8 Growing tip of a red algae – 8th Place by Dr. Nathanaël Prunet

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#9 Liquid crystal mixture – 9th Place by Dr. Marek Sutkowski

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#10 A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle – 10th Place by Murat Öztürk

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#11 Moth eggs – 11th Place by Ye Fei Zhang

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#12 Autofluorescence of a single coral polyp (approx. 1 mm) – 12th Place by Brett M. Lewis

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#13 Agatized dinosaur bone – 13th Place by Randy Fullbright

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#14 Differentiated cultured mouse myoblasts with lysosomes, nuclei, F-actin – 14th Place by Nadia Efimova

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#15 Cross sections of normal human colon epithelial crypts – 15th Place by Dr. Ziad El-Zaatari

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#16 Longitudinal section through a white asparagus shoot tip – 16th Place by Dr. Olivier Leroux

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#17 Tail fin of a zebrafish larva with peripheral nerves (green) and extracellular matrix (violet) – 17th Place by Dr. Daniel Wehner, Julia Kolb

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#18 Network of macrophages (white blood cells) of an adult zebrafish intestine – 18th Place by Dr. Julien Resseguier

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#19 Bacterial biofilm on a human tongue cell – 19th Place by Dr. Tagide deCarvalho

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#20 Human cardiomyocytes (heart cells) derived from induced pluripotent stem cells – 20th Place by Hui Lin, Dr. Kim McBride

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