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The gut starts planning before birth.
Green immune cells gather to form a future defence hub in the developing intestine 🧪

Developing Intestinal Immune System
Naeema Mehmood
2025 #WIMMImageCompetition
#SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #Immunology #Biology

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Whole blood flowing over collagen under controlled conditions. Magenta, green and red reveal activated #platelets in this gold standard in vitro setup 🧪

Where Beauty Meets Function
Natalie Jooss
2025 #WIMMImageCompetition
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
#Microscopy #AcademicSky

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Visually striking and biologically informative.
This image maps gene activity in #gut #tissue affected by #NecrotisingEnterocolitis 🧪

The Spatial Code of Necrotising Enterocolitis by Vy Wien Lai
2025 #WIMMImageCompetition
#SciComm @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @vywien-lai.bsky.social

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May look like a dino egg swallowed a disco ball.
But it's actually an intestinal #organoid glowing in cyan, magenta and yellow to show #nuclei, E cadherin and Zonula Occludens one.

Disco Intestinal Organoid by Dimitrios Ioannidis
#SciArt runner up, 2025 #WIMMImageCompetition.

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