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Metabolomic Eye by Bryan Williams Jones

This is the photograph that took first place in the 2011 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. In the image above, each color represents a different subset of cells that are present in the mouse eye. The winner employed a technique called computational molecular phenotyping (CMP) to map out the different kinds of tissue by probing out the concentrations of common organic molecules, in this case by using antibodies that stained against taurine (red) , glutamine (green) and glutamate (blue).  Thus, the distribution of these molecules results in the colorful and informative image seen above. 

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