This archive contains the winning images from the 2003/2004 Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 'Cell of the Month' competition. The images speak for themselves, illustrating how visually striking and aesthetically pleasing cell biology can be.
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2004
José Moreira
Transformed human epithelial cells
Cécile Chalouni
Unravelling the secrets of the crypts
Anna Cariboni
Microtubules in mouse neurons
Carrie Phillips
Waves of glomerular podocytes
Jaap Nijsse
A trichome on an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf
Matthew Daniels
X marks the spot
E. Kiseleva
Nuclear pore complexes in yeast
L Scotti Campos
Differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells
D Solomon
Heterochromatic domains in a mouse nucleus
O Schwartz
A dendritic cell sensing a lymphocyte
M Zhang and P J Antonelli
An outer hair cell of the inner ear
R Cassiani Ingoni
A human neurosphere attaching to a coated surface
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2003
P Dahiya
Spark of Life: inside functional corps
P Dean
An insect blood cell engulfing bacteria
K Pfaller
Human Langerhans cell in a dermal lymphatic vessel
Y -T Tai
Neural progenitor cells expressing tyrosine hydrolase
Juhn Runions
A plant hair cell on a leaf primordium of Arabidopsis thaliana
M Gimmona
The vasular smooth muscle cell cytoskeleton
K Pfaller
A Drosophila melanogaster retina showing staining for Crumbs, Moesin and the actin cytoskeleton
Wei Yu
Actin stree fibres in MDCK cyst grown in collagen gel
Sergio Svistoonoff
Allocasuarina verticillata shoots expressing GFP
Elena Kiseleva
Nuclear port complexes and Cajal bodies in Xenopus laevis oocytes
Paul Andrews
Two telophase HeLa cells expressing GFP-tagged human Aurora B
Keisuke Obara
Plant vessel elements trans-differentiated from mesophyll cells in vitro
The Cell of the Month competition has now closed.
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