Cilia under the lens: 100x win for Nikon's Small World In Motion
TL;DR
Nikon's Small World In Motion invites global entries to showcase micro-life on film. The winner, Dr Ning Xu of Tsinghua University, magnified a sample 100× to reveal cilia in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease, using colored light waves; runners-up included a roundworm vs. a single-celled organism and jellyfish larvae in droplets, with other notable clips like bioluminescent algae and a tiny sea slug.
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