Science as you've never before seen it

Pyramidal neurons are located in the forebrain of mammals and associated with the process cognitive function. This is a computer-simulated picture of how they would look in real life.

False-colored scanning electron micrograph of a honeybee.

If this color-enhanced image of periodontal bacteria doesn't convince you to brush twice a day AND visit a dentist regularly, then you're simply hopeless.

Rows of suckers on the foreleg of a great diving beetle - the largest freshwater beetles in the United Kingdom. This image was produced by passing light through colored filters.

The base of a silkworm caterpillar's proleg. These are stubby structures that grow from the underside of the caterpillar's abdomen but disappear as the caterpillar grows.

Retina from the eye of a three-day-old zebrafish. The retina is viewed here from the front.

An adult male mosquito never looked so good - especially considering how sample used for this image was taken from a microscope slide created in the middle of the 20th century.

Anne Weston, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK

Underside of a band-aid used to treat a razor blade cut.

3-D animation of the developing organs in a mouse embryo. The picture was created from optical projection tomography data.

Adult ruby-tailed wasp curled into a ball. Two electronic flashes added extra imaging to highlight the wasp's colors.

Agnieszka Jedrusik and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Gurden Institute, Cambridge

3D reconstruction of a mouse embryo at the blastocyst stage.

Fernan Federici, University of Cambridge and Lionel Dupuy, Scottish Crop Research Institute

Fluorescent proteins in the stem of a thale cress seedling. It also was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced.

Surgeons using a specialized camera to perform a laparoscopy, an operation in which small, thin instruments get placed into the patient's abdomen via small incisions.

A view of a popliteal aneurysm taken from CT scans of an 84-year-old man undergoing treatment. You can see the aneurysm in the center frame, with its reddish-blue appearance and eggshell-like boundary.

Retina from a one-month-old juvenile mouse.The image was created by 'stitching' and then aligning six smaller images.

Anna Gordon, National Institute of Agricultural Biology, and Fernan Federici, University of Cambridge

Wheat stigma hairs (blue) infected with ergot fungus (light pink).

Monica Folgueira, Steve Wilson's Lab, UCL

Cavefish embryo at around five days post-fertilization.

Bob Kao and Kieran Short, Monash University

Fetal mouse kidney at embryonic day 16.

The neuronal tracts in the brain of an adult male.

Scanning electron micrograph of the scales on the wing of a Madagascan moon moth.

Image of a human chromosome.