Over the past six months, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center have been submitting images of their research and work environment to the image competition.
Now it's time to pick a winner and, due to the current coronavirus restrictions, we will be deciding on the winning images via an online vote.
Lund Stem Cell Center members will receive an email containing a link to the poll where they can vote for their favourite image. Voting will be open for the month of November and the winners will be announced early in December.
Please scroll down to take a look at all of the submissions.
A honeycomb of bone marrow made by mesenchymal bees
Ani Grigoryan, Bourgine group
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An area of bone marrow within an engineered miniature humanized bone organ, known as humanized ossicles, formed by human mesenchymal cells. Laminin (white) and mesenchymal cells (green).
Million dollars worth of antibodies
Anna Fossum, StemTherapy FACS core facility
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Collection of a decades worth of used antibodies.
Action in the FACS lab
Anna Fossum, StemTherapy FACS core facility
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A common sight in the FACS lab when a clog has occurred.
Bone organoid remodelling by infiltrating tumor cells
Dimitra Zacharaki & Alejandro Garcia, Bourgine group
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Severe bone structure destruction in a bone organoid by growing tumor cells from a neuroblastoma patient. Image from a collaborative project with the Bexell group in Medicon Village.
Grasping at straws
Martin Hjort and Ludwig Schmiderer, NanoLund & Larsson group
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A human blood stem cell sitting on a bed of nanostraws. Nanostraws are hollow nanotubes forming stable, healthy pipelines into the interior of the cells. These pipelines can be used to inject genes and proteins allowing external control of cellular function.
Floating
Maciej Ciesla, Bellodi group
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The ability to migrate is one of the fundamental features of the cell, pivotal for both normal development or during cancer formation, when cells acquire the ability to migrate during tumor dissemination. This picture presents cells that went on a journey from their original location and were captured socializing with other expats.
In Touch
Maciej Ciesla, Bellodi group
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Embryonic stem cells are a powerful tool to study early development. Using specific conditions, they can be either maintained in the undifferentiated state, or pushed towards specific cellular fates. Herein, we show the cell differentiated towards mesoderm, lineage of origin for muscles, bones and blood.
Go Forth
Maciej Ciesla, Bellodi group
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Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. This disease is frequently associated with changes in energetics as well as motility. This image presents a breast cancer cell sporting a rich network of mitochondria (red) and multiple extensions indicative of the highly migratory behaviour.
I suspect fowl sequencing
Pavan Prabhala, Magnusson group
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Patients with lung cancer have a very high mortality rate. This is thought to be because of the heterogeneity of the disease coupled with the capacity of the lung to withstand insult. To demystify some of this heterogeneity we have performed single cell sequencing to understand the disease on a molecular level. With this we hope to find ways to target lung cancer.
Transplanting human neurons as regenerative heroes in neurovascular disease
Sara Palma Tortosa, Kokaia group
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The lack of treatments allowing the regeneration of the damaged brain complicates the recovery of stroke patients and forces them to live with perpetual disability. Even if still in a pre-clinical stage, human neurons derived from stem cells can be transplanted and integrated in the rodent brain improving impairment.
Yggdrasil in 47 min
Steven Dupard, Bourgine group
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Yggdrasil in 47 min represents the current increase in the usage of 3D printing technologies in medical science and life sciences in general. This picture illustrates the current shift from a top-down to a bottom-up engineering design in tissue engineering.
Colorful cartilage
Sujeethkumar Prithiviraj, Bourgine group
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This is an in vitro engineered tissue sample produced from human mesenchymal stromal cells, 3 days after implantation in a immunodefficient mouse.
INtoPV
Srisaiyini Kidnapillai, Ottosson group
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Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons are part of the neuronal network and help to maintain balance in the brain. Imbalance in these interneurons leads to several brain disorders. Treatments for these disorders include generating new interneurons in the brain. We are working on generating functional interneurons and the image here shows successful conversion of glial cells in the brain into PV neurons.