The Wellcome Trust Wellcome Image Awards 2011: the winners are here

• Pyramidal Neurons (Michael Häusser and Hermann Cuntz/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Cell division and gene expression in plants (Fernan Federici and Lionel Dupuy/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Mouse retina (Freya Mowat/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Wheat infected with ergot fungus (Anna Gordon and Fernan Federici/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Cavefish embryo (Monica Folgueira/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Developing mouse kidney (Bob Kao and Kieran Short/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Moth wing scales (Kevin Mackenzie/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Chromosome lifetime map (David Lleres/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Visualising neuronal tracts (Nuada Medical Specialist Imaging/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Popliteal aneurysm (Arindam Chaudhuri/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Honeybee (David McCarthy and Annie Cavanagh/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Mouse embryo (Ian Smyth/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Laparoscopy surgery (David Bishop/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Periodontal bacteria (Derren Ready/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Adult male mosquito (Spike Walker/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Foreleg of a male diving beetle (Spike Walker/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Caterpillar proleg (Spike Walker/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Zebrafish retina (Kara Cerveny/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Blood clot on a plaster (Anne Weston/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Blastocyst embryo (Agnieszka Jedrusik and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz/Wellcome Images)

   

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• Ruby-tailed wasp (Spike Walker/Wellcome Images)

   

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The Wellcome Trust has announced the winners of its annual Image awards.

Every year one of the world’s largest funding bodies rewards the spectacular, the alien and the bizarre.

Picture takers and computer model makers from a multitude of laboratories have submitted to this competition which never fails to produce an array of startling and beautiful images.

The judges this year are Dr Alice Roberts, co-presenter of the BBC’s Coast; Dr Adam Rutherford of Nature; Catherine Draycott, head of Wellcome Images; Dr Robin Lovell-Badge, head of stem cell biology and developmental genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research; BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh; Eric Hilaire, assistant picture editor at the Guardian; John Durant, director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s museum; James Cutmore, picture editor at BBC Focus; and Dr Laura Pastorelli, Wellcome’s image coordinator who assembled this panel.

The images will form part of the Wellcome Image Collection, a considerable educational resource licensed for use across the world. The 21 winning photographs will be on display at the Wellcome Collection in central London from 24 February.