This image is scanning electron microscopy showing glycocalyx in fenestrated capillaries of the kidney and sinusoids of the liver under normal conditions. It comes from a research article that may help understand septic injury to organs.
You can read that article here: https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-017-1841-8
A serene landscape, peaceful, tranquil and isolated. Christin Säwström captured this magical image whilst riding a motorbike in Antarctica.
You can read the photographer’s thoughts in this Q&A: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2017/10/06/behind-image-two-tranquil-towers/
“When the ant feels threatened, it takes a defensive position“
Read more from Maïlis Huguin, the photographer of this image: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2017/09/15/behind-image-bugs-life/
These young giant South American turtles will one day weigh up to 90kg and reach almost 110cm in shell length. Ana Carolina Lima, a Ph.D. student from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has captured a moment in which these juveniles were being counted, measured and weighed.
This image was the overall winner of the 2017 BMC Ecology Image Competition, see all the winners here: https://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12898-017-0138-8
This colourful image shows the mouse hippocampus at a resolution of 60-70nm after viral delivery of membrane-bound Brainbow 3.0. Looking closer at a recently developed technique, this paper answers some important questions about Expansion Microscopy. Check out the research here: http://bit.ly/2tnY4Fu
Published today in the Journal of Ecology and Environment, authors form Kyungpook National University in Korea, report the first finding of three newly recorded Synura species. Synura are a small group of heterokont algae, they are colonial and have silica scales: the ultrastructure of which are used for classification.
Shown is an SEM image of colony forming cells of Synura conopea.
Taken above the Colombian savanna, this photo shows hundreds of earth mounds created by large earthworms. Read more about this amazing image from the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2016 from landscape ecology and ecosystems image competition winner Delphine Renard, here: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2016/08/30/behind-image-earthworm-labyrinth/
This image shows a great-tailed grackle perched between two intense hues, one of the winners of the BMC Ecology Image Competition.
Read an interview with the photographer, and get an insight into the research behind the image: https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2016/08/17/behind-image-gregarious-great-tailed-grackle/
See all the winning images in this blog: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2016/08/09/2016-bmc-ecology-image-competition-winning-images/
Davide Gaglio, a conservation biologist based at the University of Cape Town, captured this stunning image of Springbok grazing in South Africa, the overall winner of the 2016 BMC Ecology Image Competition.
Read more about Davide’s research and the story behind the image here: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2016/08/09/behind-image-springbok-sunrise/
Of those competing, Victoria Cookson submitted this overall winner.
Here we see fluorescently tagged breast cancer cells (green). Red indicates the presence of small interfering RNA’s that were used in an attempt to inhibit known targets. Dr Cookson and her team at Sheffield University are currently investigating the molecular pathways that are involved in breast cancer metastasis.
Take a look at the other winners here
Arachnophobics look away now!
This amazing photograph was the Community, Population and Macroecology winner for the 2014 BMC Ecology Image Competition.
Think you can frame cutting edge research as beautifully as this? Enter this year’s BMC Ecology Image Competition. Details (and the best of last year’s entries) can be found in this blog: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2014/08/29/winners-of-the-bmc-ecology-image-competition/
Good luck!
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