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Your brain on microfluidics

Microfluidic device at 40-times magnification.
Microfluidic device at 40-times magnification. Image: Esmeralda Paric Holly Stefen

Second place went to Esmeralda Paric and Holly Stefen from the Dementia Research Centre at Macquarie Park in Australia. Their image, colorized with fluorescence, shows a microfluidic device (a tool for managing the flow of liquids inside microscopic-sized channels) consisting of 300,000 networking neurons in two isolated brain samples.

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