Wellcome Image Awards 2008

Special Award Winner: The new technique of Optical Projection Tomography enables stained whole embryos and small pieces of tissue to reveal internal structures without the need for cutting sections, as shown here on this mouse embryo Photograph: James Sharpe/Wellcome Trust

Special Winner: Crystals of oxidised Vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid) Photograph: Spike Walker/Wellcome Trust

Special Winner: Colour-enhanced image of red blood cells leaking from a ruptured blood vessel Photograph: Anne Weston/Wellcome Trust

Villi from the human small intestine Photograph: Stephanie Schuller/Wellcome Trust

Liquid crystal seen under polarised light Photograph: Karen Neill/Wellcome Trust

Colon cancer cells growing in a dish Photograph: Lorna McInroy/Wellcome Trust

Internal structure of an HIV particle Photograph: Stephen Fuller/Wellcome Trust

Trachea from a silkworm Photograph: Spike Walker/Wellcome Trust

A clump of prostate cancer cells. The blue-green cells are growing, whereas the pink ones are dying by programmed cell death (apoptosis) Photograph: Dave McCarthy and Annie Cavanagh/Wellcome Trust

A clump of breast cancer cells. The blue cells are actively growing whereas the yellow ones are in the process of dying by programmed cell death (apoptosis) Photograph: Dave McCarthy and Annie Cavanagh/Wellcome Trust

Colour-enhanced image of a single breast cancer cell Photograph: Anne Weston/Wellcome Trust

A carpet of red blood cells clearly showing their typical biconcave disc shape Photograph: Dave McCarthy and Annie Cavanagh/Wellcome Trust

A molecular model showing all the different molecules, both RNA (turquoise, green and yellow) and protein (purple and orange), that make up the ribosome, the RNA and protein found in all cells Photograph: Venki Ramakrishnan/Wellcome Trust

Meningitis bacteria Photograph: Shao Jin Ong/Wellcome Trust

A fly on sugar crystals Photograph: Dave McCarthy and Annie Cavanagh/Wellcome Trust