(Above) Egg and sperm. © M I Walker
Exhibition: Wellcome Image Awards 2009, October 15 2009 – Spring 2010, Wellcome Collection, London
The 10th Wellcome Image Awards celebrate the best new images acquired by the Wellcome Images picture library in the past 18 months. Nineteen extraordinary images have been chosen by a panel of judges, based on the ability of the picture to communicate the wonder and fascination of science.
The selected images are now on display at the Wellcome Collection, and can be viewed as well on the Image Awards website, which explains the stories behind the pictures, how the images were created, what they add to scientific understanding and why the judges picked them out as the best images this year.
Culture24 has chosen a selection to give you a taste of what to expect from this year's exhibition.
A Tibetan doctor holding his family's medical texts. © Theresia Hofer
Sickle-cell anaemia. © EM Unit, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus
Mouse liver with blood cells. © Jackie Lewin
Summer plankton. © MI Walker
Villi in the small intestine. © Paul Appleton
Engineering DNA. © Oliver Burston
Microparticle drug delivery. © Annie Cavanagh
Bird of paradise seed. © Annie Cavanagh
Mechanical heart. © Bill McConkey
