Spectators flee as a bull charges during a traditional Corraleja or bullfight in Since, Sucre province September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Joaquin Sarmiento
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Spectators flee as a bull charges during a traditional Corraleja or bullfight in Since, Sucre province September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Joaquin Sarmiento
Ana Julia Torres kisses Jupiter, a lion who was rescued from a circus 12 years ago, on September 17, 2011, at Villa Lorena shelter, in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. Torres, a 52 year-old teacher, founded the Villa Lorena animal shelter 17 years ago, which protects about 600 animals seized from drug traffickers, circuses, animal traffickers or abandoned by their owners. (AFP/Getty Images/Luis Robayo)
A European tree frog rests on the branch of a tree in a garden in the eastern German town of Schoenebeck on September 5, 2011. The European tree frog is one of the most widespread reptiles in the region. AFP PHOTO / PETER FORSTER
Two of three newly-arrived polar foxes keep out of the rain at the Berlin Zoo on September 9, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The Zoo recently aquired to foxes, who are five months old. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
This picture taken on August 21, 2011 shows a baby giraffe (R) and her mother snuggling each other over wire netting in their enclosure at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo. The baby giraffe was born on August 6 at the zoo. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI
Gardener Peter Glazebrook poses for photographers with his world record-breaking onion at The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on September 16, 2011 in Harrogate, England. Peter Glazebrook from Newark, Nottinghamshire claimed a Guinness World Record with his giant onion weighing 8.150kg. (Getty Images/Christopher Furlong)
Toronto Star Picture Editor Wanda Goodwin shares more fascinating images from The Nikon Small World Competition. Celebrating its 37th year, Nikon Small World is the oldest and most respected competition of its kind. It has become the top forum for showing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope, and it celebrates the world's best photomicrographers who create beautiful imagery while demonstrating a variety of scientific disciplines.
Today photos are from The World’s Top Women Photomicographers – images from the number of female winners included in this year’s competition across all levels of prizing.
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Dr. Donna Stolz
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Blade of Grass (200X)
Confocal stack reconstruction, Autofluorescence
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Dr. Denise Montell
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Whole Drosophila sp. (fruit fly) ovary
Confocal
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Debora Leite
University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sugarcane root cross section
Brightfield
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Roberta Nowak
The Scripps Research Institute
San Diego, California
Mouse embryonic skeletal muscle and red blood cells, frozen section
immunofluorescence
Confocal Laser Microscopy
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Poulomi Ray
Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Chick embryo intestine (20X)
Confocal
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Yanping Wang
Beijing Planetarium
Beijing, China
Sand (4X)
Reflected light
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Yanping Wang
Beijing Planetarium
Beijing, China
Snowflake (4X)
Reflected and transmitted light
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Dr. Ana Pasapera
NIH-NHLBI
Bethesda, Maryland
Human Osteosarcoma cells (U2OS)
Epi-fluorescence
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Dr. Maria Prado-Figueroa
INIBIBB (CONICET - Universidad Nacional del Sur)
Bahía Blanca, Brazil
Chalcedony (microcrystalline silica) isolated from Torpediniformes (electric fish) electric organ
Confocal
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Dr. Irina Catrina
Hunter College
New York, New York
Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) sperm individualization, fixed
Confocal
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Dr. Mariela Loschi
Fundación Instituto Leloir
Buenos Aires, Brazil
Stressed COS-7 cells
Confocal microscopy
An egret flies over a wild male elephant at the Deepor Beel wetlands, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)
A male lion named Tyson receives dental treatment at a veterinary clinic in Medellin September 15, 2011. Tyson is a 20-year-old lion living at Santafe Zoo in Medellin. REUTERS/Albeiro Lopera
An albino hedgehog sits on a palm of in a Zoo keeper in the Botanical Garden (Dendrarium) in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, on September 5, 2001. The hedgehog was found at one of the construction sites of the 2014 Winter Olympics . AFP PHOTO / MIKHAIL MORDASOV
