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Created by Dr. Spencer Watson uses hyperplexed immunofluorescence data. This work shows how microscopy and computer vision can be combined to better understand complex cellular systems.

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Rather than focusing on individual cells, it highlights the tumor microenvironment, the surrounding network of cells that influences how a tumor grows, resists treatment, and responds to therapy.

Blending real microscopy with a computer-generated reconstruction, the image offers a view into how cells relate to one another within a glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer.

Constellations (2022)

Like stars forming patterns in the night sky, cells in this image appear linked across space.

🖼️ Pic 3: They explored how rain evacuation works and thought about how easily living things could get trapped.

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🖼️ Pic 2 (from left to right): Emma (artist), Benoit (tech artist), Gahel (music composer), Sylvia (fluid mechanics engineer), Alex Bourgeois (artist), Alex Andrix (artist)

The project was coordinated by Sabrina Raz, which helped bring their collaboration to life. With this initiative, the authors wanted to help artists and scientists connect, share ideas, and inspire each other

🖼️ Pic 1: Exposed artwork Throughout the Eras from the Extreme Environments Exhibition 2025

Alex Andrix (artist) and Damien de Vienne (evolutionary biologist), authors of Throughout the Eras, organized a museum visit at @musee_des_confluences in Lyon for six people, using the prize money they received from the jury and audience favourite artwork in the Exhibition of Extreme Environments.

Seen up close in a petri dish, microbial growth takes on unexpected, almost human shapes.

🏆 This image received both the Jury Award and the Public Award in 2021.

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While searching for new antibiotics, Dr. Kaveh Emami worked with different Streptomyces strains, each producing its own pigments, from the pinkest pink to the bluest blue. As the colonies grew, documenting their colors and forms became irresistible.

Streptomyces: The pinkest pink (2021)

At first glance, it looks like the trace of a kiss.

What you’re really seeing is Streptomyces, a soil bacterium whose claim to fame is making many of the antibiotics we rely on.

Through this delicate process, science makes the invisible visible.

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The experiment, performed by Dr. Vincent Raquin, allows researchers to collect and test that saliva directly, revealing whether a mosquito species can transmit infection. After about 40 minutes, the contents of the tube are analyzed.

This image captures a mosquito during a forced salivation experiment captured with transmitted light microscopy (×5). The proboscis is placed into a small tube, where saliva accumulates.

In reality, female mosquitoes spread diseases when they bite, injecting saliva into the skin before drawing blood. If that saliva carries a virus or parasite, infection can happen almost instantly.

Thirsty mozzy (2020)

For many of us, a mosquito is just part of a summer night.

It’s a reminder that scientific research doesn’t just produce answers. Sometimes, it also produces unexpected beauty.

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Created by geophysicist Yury Alkhimenkov (@yuri.alchemy), this snapshot comes from research focused on environmental safety, helping scientists understand how fluids like water or CO₂ move below the Earth’s surface.

This image shows what happens when a liquid is injected into the ground, and its pressure spreads through the surrounding material. The different colors represent how strong that pressure is at that moment.

Beautiful Eye (2019)

What looks like an eye is actually a moment underground.

Learn more about freshwater species conservation here --> PMID: 33664788.

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Through restraint and simplicity, this photograph connects scientific observation with conservation awareness, using one fragile beginning to represent a much larger loss.

This work received the Public Favorite award during our 2018 exhibition 🏆

During his PhD, he studied how the population of European graylings has dropped sharply as freshwater habitats face increasing pressure, a trend also seen in other species like the brown trout.

Lonely in the Dark (2018)

What should be many has become just one. On the gravel bed of Lake Thun, a single European grayling embryo rests alone. Biologist Dr. David Nusbaumer (@kiwi___photography) chose this isolated view to reflect the drastic decline of the species.

Captured through a microscope with an iPhone, this crescent-shaped image reveals living cells in diluted breast milk, where science, motherhood, and curiosity meet.

🏆 Jury Award, Figure1A Exhibition (2017)

📸 Silvia Fuertes Marraco, Figure1A Exhibition 2017

Breast milk is alive and dynamic: it contains living immune cells that protect mother and infant and help train the newborn immune system. It also contains stem cells that may support the child’s development. Interestingly, its composition changes daily to meet a growing baby’s needs.

When immunologist and mother Silvia Fuertes Marraco returned to the lab after having twins, she turned her scientific gaze toward her own milk and discovered a cosmos of life.

2017 Throwback: Crescent Moon 🌙

This isn’t a photograph of the moon.

It’s a glimpse into the living universe of human breast milk.

Through powerful contrasts, Moving Pictures invites us to reflect on extinction, exploitation, and the fragile relationship between humanity and the natural world.

📍 Palais de Rumine, Lausanne
🗓️ Open until March 31st, 2026
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Exposition [MOVING PICTURES] Exposition de photographes animaliers primés

Opening today at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne: Moving Pictures

This photography exhibition brings together the work of 15 wildlife photographers who capture both the breathtaking beauty of nature and the devastating traces of human impact.