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