Inside STAT: Peering inside life’s microworld with MIT’s 2019 image award winners

ONE OF THE FEATURED IMAGES: ADULT STEM CELL-DERIVED HUMAN AIRWAY CELLS IN A DISH. (RAGHU CHIVUKULA, DAVID MANKUS, MARGARET BISHER, ABIGAIL LYTTON-JEAN, DAVID SABATINI, MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE, AND KOCH INSTITUTE AT MIT)

From electron micrographs that reveal how a chemotherapy drug changes shape to images of immune cells erupting to kill malaria parasites, this year’s picks for the MIT Koch Institute’s public gallery of bioscience images offer a peek into the living world as few have ever seen it. The 10 winners were chosen from a record 160 submissions and capture subjects as different as epigenetic modification and the sexual anatomy of a popular laboratory flower. View the images in all their beauty and intricacy here.