2017 Photomicrography Competition

Growing cartilage-like tissue in the lab using bone stem cells (collagen fibers in green and fat deposits in red)

Catarina Moura Dr. Sumeet Mahajan, Dr. Richard Oreffo, Dr. Rahul Tare

Affiliation

University of Southampton
Institute for Life Sciences
Southampton, United Kingdom

Technique

Second Harmonic Generation (SHG), Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS)

Magnifaction

20x for collagen; 40x for fat deposits