Explore the magical world under a microscope

A rare moment captures the image of the human brain beating other beautiful works to win the first prize of the Wellcome Trust Award 2012 photo contest in biomedical photo category.

The owner of this award is photographer Robert Rudlow. The photo Living Brain was taken when Robert followed a brain surgery for a patient with epilepsy.

Living Brain works on the image of the human brain
photographer Robert Ludlow won the first prize this year

Alice Robert, an ophthalmologist at Cardiff University, one of the judges of this year's competition, praised the magic of this award-winning photo. The bright red arteries filled with blood have been oxidized, the purple veins along with the pink of the gray matter in the cortex have created a very realistic anatomical image.

The Wellcome Trust Award is an annual photography competition sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Research Assistance Fund. Excellent works will be on display at the Wellcome Collection, London from now until December.

Let's admire the beautiful moments of creation under the microscope:

Lavender leaves under an electron microscope - (Author: Annie Cavanagh and David Maccarthy)

A cancer cell is dividing - (Author: Kuan-chung Su and Mark Petronszky)

Amazing beauty of seeds - (Author: Fernan Federici and Jim Haseloff)

A caffeine crystal - (Author: Annie Cavanagh and David Maccarthy)