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This year Boston Children’s had 15 entries into the Harvard Brain Science Initiative “Beauty of the Brain” image contest. 🧠 🖼️ Scroll through to see part 2 of the stunning images captured by our researchers this past year.

1. Midbrain Organoid: Cholinergic neurons (blue) and neuronal microtubules (green) in a midbrain organoid.
2. An Apparition of Retinal Ganglion Cells: Mouse retinal ganglion cells (white) and retinal bipolar cells (red).
3. Micro Engines of the Mind: Mitochondria, the cell’s “power plants,” glow inside a rat neuron.
4. Energy Highways Inside a Neuron: Glowing mitochondria dot branches of neurons, highlighting the cell’s internal transport system.
5. Eye of Sauron: A pluripotent stem cell-derived neuroepithelial organoid self-organizes in a columnar-like fashion around a central cavity (lumen).
6. The Helix of Hearing 2: Rows of specialized sensory hair cells on the cochlea of a postnatal mouse.
7. An Axonal Aurora: 3D sensory neuron organoid with cell bodies clustering in the middle and radiating out axonal projections.
8. Human Cortical Neuron Culture: Cortical neurons derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (reprogrammed from skin tissue). ... See MoreSee Less

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