{"id":416235,"date":"2010-03-11T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:10:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:10:37","slug":"broadway-boogie-cell-art-winners-light-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416235","title":{"rendered":"Broadway boogie: Cell art winners light Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Glittering Broadway marquees and flashing neon are the norm in New York City\u2019s Times Square. But each year, three scientists get to join the dazzling display when their winning entries from GE Healthcare\u2019s IN Cell Image Competition are broadcast on NBC\u2019s giant high-definition TV screen. This year\u2019s competition featured over 80 intricate shots generated by scientists from more than 10 countries using the IN Cell Analyzer system — which combines a microscope, camera and powerful software to take images of fluorescently stained cells and then analyze them. The goal is to better understand diseases and evaluate new drug compounds for treating them. As we described in our recent story<\/a> about the competition’s kick-off, the images produced are so vivid and stunning that they could easily be taken for gallery works. In the first two videos below, this year\u2019s winners are seen in New York last week — with their works of art flashing above — and some of GE\u2019s customers describe how critical the technology is to their research.<\/p>\n

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\nNight at the museum:<\/span> Click on the wall of images from the contest to start a slideshow. The images were shortlisted by a scientific panel and the winners were determined through a public vote. The three winning images were featured in Times Square from March 5-7.<\/div>\n

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Winner Keiko Suzuki, from Showa University, Japan, said of her work with bone cells: \u201cThe IN Cell Analyzer\u2019s ability to take so many pictures in a short time allows us to save a lot of time.\u201d For winner Dr. Miriam Ascagni, from DIBIT-San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Italy, the bone marrow-derived cells she is studying with the technology may help \u201cgenerate replacements for muscle cells that are lost because of injury or disease,\u201d she said. Added winner Corey Seehus, of Brain Cells, Inc., about his neuron research: \u201cI love the work I am engaged in right now, and this competition was an awesome bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n

And since the images do have a certain hypnotic appeal, we thought we’d share this video montage of the submissions — created with just the right touch of mood music — by Ed Chadwick, an artist in Amersham, which is just north of London in the U.K.<\/p>\n

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* Learn more about the contest and download a screensaver<\/a>
\n* Read \u201cWhere the wild things are: GE\u2019s cell analyzer contest<\/a>\u201d on GE Reports
\n* Read \u201cTake a magical mystery tour with GE\u2019s cell analyzer<\/a>\u201d on GE Reports<\/p>\n

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