With a pictorial Editorial this month, we celebrate the beauty of microscopy images.
Following our nearly annual tradition, this month’s cover features an image from the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Our pick, which won fourth place in the competition, was captured by Amy Engevik from the Medical University of South Carolina and features a section of small intestine from a mouse.
Budding microscopist-artists may be interested in submitting their work to several other competitions, including those hosted by BioImaging North America, the Microscopy Society of America and FocalPlane-European Light Microscopy Initiative. Other companies such as BioLegend also host microscopic art competitions. And some institutions, such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), highlight beautiful images produced by their scientists. If you appreciate microscopic art, these websites will be a feast for your eyes. And below, we highlight some of the other winners, honorable mentions and images of distinction from the Small World competition. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
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Microscopic art. Nat Methods 21, 1961 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02531-z
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