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Meet the winners of Nikon’s 2024 photomicrography contest

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Nikon 's annual photomicrography contest is 50 years old .

The winning image of differentiated mouse brain tumor cells has won the Nikon Small World contest.

The image shows how degenerate diseases like Alzheimer's and ALS can arise from disruption in the cytoskeleton of brain cells.

The contest is designed to showcase the beauty and complexity of things seen through the light microscope.

Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture.

She lives in Baltimore with her spouse, physicist Sean M. Carroll , and their two cats, Ariel and Caliban .

Jennifer lives with Sean and her husband, Sean , and her two cats.

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