Quail Embryo Video Wins Nikon Small World in Motion Competition

Posted on April 24, 2014

A video showing virtual slices through a quail embryo won the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. The 3D reconstruction was created by Dr. Gabriel G. Martins of The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia. More than 1,000 separate images were used to make the video.

A video of the beating heart of a two-day old zebrafish embryo took second place. The video was created by Michael Weber of The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Germany. The zebrafish embryo heart is only 250 micrometers or just slightly larger than the diameter of a human hair.

Third place went to this video of a Live HeLa (cancer) cell by Dr. Lin Shao of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus. The video reveals the inner details of the mitochondria in a living cell within a 3D image for the first time.



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