Update: Biomedical Image awards 2006

As far as award ceremonies go, it could have been a disaster: one winner had tooth-decaying bacteria, another had mumps. A mosquito was buzzing around having drunk its fill and even the bread was mouldy.

Fortunately, these were not calamities but stunning images, among those honoured at the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Image Awards 2006 and currently being displayed both online and at the Wellcome Library, London. Other winning images included cancerous cells, the blind spot of an eye and the stinging hairs on a nettle leaf.

Presenting the Awards, scientist and broadcaster Kathy Sykes described the Award winners as "a stunning collection of images that portray a range of surprises, intrigues, beauties and even horrors of biomedical science".

The winning images were selected from those submitted to the Medical Photographic Library over the past 12 months.

View the Award-winning images in the online gallery or in person, listen to interviews with their creators and find out how they were made. And don't forget to vote for your favourite.

See also

• Biomedical Image Awards 2006 website
• Beauty and horrors of the molecular world revealed (Press release, 13 July 2006)