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Elison Blancaflor
Noble Research Institute LLC

Description: Cross section of a pecan root stained with calcofluor  to label the cellulosic cell wall (blue color). White/pink color is autofluorescence that indicates vascular cells with enhanced wall thickening. The image was captured at 10x and with brightfield and DAPI, FITC and Rhodamine filters.
Image captured with: Lionheart FX

Ibrahim Halil Demirsoy
Luigi Vanvitelli Campania University

Description: Stem cell -derived neural cells imaged at 40x magnification, Actin (green), MitoTracker (red) and DAPI (blue).
Image captured with: Cytation 3

Rene Girard
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler

Description: Rabbit lung, 20x, Manual mode with DAPI, GFP, and 647 Filters, Image shows rabbit lung injury caused by acute empyema. Staining shows Nuclear (DAPI), Fibrin (Red), and PAI-1 (Green) co-localization on the lining of the lung. Empyema causes fibrin formation in the pleural space.
Image captured with: Cytation 5