The British medical foundation Wellcome Trust has just released its selection of the 22 best scientific images of 2008. The reasons for the photographs awarded in the new edition of the Wellcome Images Awards are mainly related to biomedicine and, according to its organizers, "reveal new levels of complexity and turn the ordinary into extraordinary. " The jury has been made up of neuroscientists and experts in visual perception.
Tumor cells, vitamin C crystals, a carpet of red blood cells, a house fly on sugar crystals, the image of a mouse embryo seen with the new Optical Projection Tomography (OPT) or the trachea of a silkworm are some of the most surprising motifs that we find in these images.
