Dramatic Process and Beautiful Symmetry Capture Grand Image Awards

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Winners of Jed's 2020 Electron Microscopy Image Contest were revealed as the company also launched its competition for this year.The Grand Prize Transmission Electron Microscope（TEM)Image award was given to Lita Duraine,a certified electron microscopist at Baylor College of Medicine in Baylor,Texas.The Screamer 2020'resembles a screaming cartoon character（possibly a good depiction of how many felt about 2020),but is actually a detailed,high magnification image showing firing between boutons in a Drosophila melanogaster（fruit fly)sample.It was imaged on the Jeol JEM-1400Plus TEM as part of a bouton study on muscle weakness."Manipulating Drosophila melanogaster is a bit challenging from an electron microscopy point of view,but is so indispensable for genomic research in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis（ALS),Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases,"Lita said.The common fruit fly serves as a model organism for studying genetics and other fields of research.