The Research is Beautiful campaign continues to inspire with some fantastic images, but there has to be a winner, and here’s February’s…
Congratulations to Danny Gold, a DPhil student in Professor Francis Barr’s Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Division lab at The University of Oxford, for his winning image. It captures microtubules attaching to chromosomes via kinetochores to form mitotic spindles.
Danny says: “Cutting-edge STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion) microscopy is enabling me to understand how cells share out their chromosomes in much greater detail. Each chromosome in the cell has a tiny structure – a kinetochore – which binds to microtubules, which are themselves a thousand times thinner than a human hair.”
Credit: by Phil Prime – CRUK
Image Credit: Danny Gold