2020 Photomicrography Competition

Human hair follicles growing from a stem cell-derived skin organoid (cyan) with nerves (red)

Dr. Karl R. Koehler Dr. Jiyoon Lee

Affiliation
Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Department of Otolaryngology & Plastic and Oral Surgery
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Technique
Confocal
Magnification
20X (Objective Lens Magnification)

Beetle leg

Aigars Jukna

Location
Riga, Latvia, Latvia
Technique
Image Stacking, Reflected Light
Magnification
10X (Objective Lens Magnification)

Liquid crystals in a mobile LCD screen

Alexey Marchenko

Affiliation
AlexmarPhoto
Minsk, Belarus
Technique
Brightfield
Magnification
20X (Objective Lens Magnification)