The Best Science Images of 2023 | Nature

An image of snowflake yeast taken during the 2022 Physiology Advanced Research Training course was listed among Nature's "Best science images of the year," alongside photos of space nebulae, a melting ice sheet, and an erupting volcano.

The image of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (also known as "snowflake yeast") was part of a long-term experiment at the Georgia Institute of Technology investigating how life on Earth may have transitioned from single-celled into multicellular organisms. The researchers visualized the nuclei of the cells in orange to help them study changes in how the yeast cells divided. Cell walls are shown in blue. The sample was captured using spinning disk confocal microscopy.

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Source: The Best Science Images of 2023 – Nature’s picks | Nature