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See tiny organisms on show in microscopic video competition
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See tiny organisms on show in microscopic video competition
Nikon's annual Small World In Motion competition is open to anyone worldwide with an interest in film or time-lapse photography through a microscope. This year's winning video was magnified 100 times and featured tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease. Submitted by Dr Ning Xu, a researcher at Tsinghua University in China, the video used a series of complicated light waves to illuminate different parts of the sample in color.
Runners Up & Highly Commended
Roundworm encountering a single-celled organism Microscopic jellyfish larvae suspended in droplets of water Bioluminescent algae and a tiny sea slug
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