By Emily Singer

Cellular Wonders

The winners of the American Society for Cell Biology's annual image contest reveal the beauty within cells.

Honorable Mention. "Cryptic Colonic Mountainscape." Using a riot of colors, this micrograph reveals colonic "crypts," the intestinal stem cell niches that constantly replenish the epithelial cell population, in an adult mouse.

Credit: Kaelyn Male of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC

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