The 2005 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2005 "Images of Research" competition in the categories "Fascination of Research", "Faces of Research", the winner of the audience prize and the shortlist, a selection of the best photos submitted in 2005. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Peter Herter / Gesine Schulte
Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Dortmund

The cells of a human colon tumor show the yellow-dyed protein beta-catenine, which is normally only found at the cell boundaries. If it also appears in the nucleus of individual tumor cells as shown, it represents the starting signal for malignant growth: A benign tumor is turning into a malignant one.

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