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Lab on a Chip and the National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) were pleased to present theArt in 新利手机客户端Scienceaward titled "Under the Looking Glass: Art from the World of Small 新利手机客户端Science" at theµTAS 2015 Conference.

The award highlights the aesthetic value in scientific illustrations while still conveying scientific merit.Many fantastic submissions were received this year with the winner selected by a panel of senior scientists who attended the conference.

And the winner is…

The winning artwork,"Through Warhol's eyepiece"photographed byMatteo Cornagliafrom theLaboratory of Microsystems,EPFLin Switzerland,was created byon-chip multi-dimensional imaging ofC.elegansembryogenesis as observed through an Andy Warhol microscope,equipped with a 63x oil immersion objective and a pop art optical filter.第一次,automated longitudinal studies ofC.elegansembryos are made possible by microfluidics. For thisartwork,20 embryos are isolated from an on-chip worm culture upon egg laying and transferred into dedicated micro-incubators for long-term time-lapse imaging of the whole population at single-organism resolution.Each colour corresponds to a different instant of the same population development.

And the runners up are…

A tiny drop of liquid is encapsulated in a polymer microwell,covered with thin gold film.As the device is heated,the liquid is expanding,creating a bulge in the gold film,stress and ripples in the rest of the gold sheet.

Microparticles are manipulated inside a sessile droplet of water placed on top of a vibrating acoustofluidic platform.Surface acoustic waves leaking into the water drive the concentration of the larger diameter (yellow) particles while smaller (blue) particles remain scattered in the background.The particles resembles stars spread in a celestial galaxy.

A big thank you to all the contributors this year.