Best micro photos in 2010

A 3D image depicting microbes that attack a bacterium, the gene map that looks like fireworks is the best science images of 2010 published in National Geographic magazine.

The two-color image describes in detail the HIV (orange) virus that attacks and destroys an immune cell
(grey). This image was analyzed by Russian scientists
more than a hundred scientific journals.Photo: Science Company.

3D photos depict food that feeds on bacteria that attack another bacterium like in a horror movie. Image:
Jonathan Heras, Equinox Graphics.

The wavy surface of a molecular layer. This image is used as a cover for Science magazine
February 18.Photo: Seth B. Darling / ANL and Steven J. Sibener / U-Chicago.

Through the microscope, the hairs on tomato seeds can be best viewed. These hairs
Create the mucus layer to destroy the enemy.Photo: Robert Rock Belliveau.

The image that looks like this firework is grouped by the author at Carnegie Science Institute
expressed as a genetic map of the mustard plant (Arabidopsis thaliana). The colors
Darkness indicates the degree of association of genes. Photo: Insuk Lee, Michael Ahn,
Edward Marcotte, and Seung Yon Rhee, Carnegie.

The picture showing many of these mushrooms has won the first prize in the category of information graphics. Photo: Kandis
Elliott and Mo Fayyaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robots with many pieces help people imagine the body is divided into many parts
flexible, agile motion. Photo: Katie L. Hoffman and Robert J. Wood, Harvard
University.