OPT Image Wins Wellcome Award
An image created using Optical Projection Tomography has won a Special Award at the 2008 Wellcome Image Awards.
Image shows wildtype E10.5 mouse embryo visualised using wholemount fluorescence
immunohistochemistry.
Green shows the staining pattern of an antibody against neurofilament and blue highlights the expression of the HNF3β protein. Red indicates the heart.
View the winning image and an accompanying animation at the Wellcome website.
The Wellcome Image Awards 2008 is on show at Wellcome Collection, at 183 Euston Road, Lond from 12 March 2008.
It will also be on show in Tokyo at Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Dates and details to be confirmed.