The 2006 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2006 "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 2006. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Focus.de

Frank Sommerhage, Dr. Bernhard Wolfrum
und Boris Hofmann, Biologen

A cardiac muscle cell grows on a "lawn" made from tiny golden rods. The golden rods, which are no more than several nanometers in size, serve to enlarge the surface of the connected electrode. This facilitates a measurement of the electrical activity of the cardiac muscle cell to examine the impacts of various substances on cardiac muscle activity.

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