Winning video from Nikon microscope competition shows airway cells dancing in child with rare genetic disorder — Chinese student built imaging system to capture 'beautiful' cilia at 100x magnification
- The Nikon Small World in Motion 2026 winners are here
- First prize goes to video of the cilia structures inside airways
- It's a 'beautiful and important' record of biology, says the winner
The beauty in the world (and the universe) around us can be shown at the smallest scales as well as the largest, as demonstrated by the annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition. The competition aims to showcase "the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope", and the 2026 winners have now been announced.
First prize this year goes to a video of airway cilia (tiny hair-like protein structures that stick out from some cells), captured at 100x magnification via diffractive super-resolution microscopy. The cilia are there to process mucus and carry waste out of the airways, though they're actually colorless — the green color here is artificially added.
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