Latest winner in our Research is Beautiful campaign

It’s that time again – take a look at our latest fantastic winning image…

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Research is Beautiful

Our Research is Beautiful image campaign highlights images that showcase your research – from your science, to the people in your lab and everything that surrounds it.

Congratulations to Hannah Harrison, research fellow at the University of Manchester for winning the image of October. Thank you for all your incredible entries and don’t forget to throw in some festive entries in the coming month!

Mammary tree — The image shows epithelial cells within an explant taken from normal human breast tissue. The blue represents the nuclei of the cells, and the brown is marking progesterone receptor.

Translation of targets from lab to patients has a high attrition rate due to poor pre-clinical models and limited in vitro tools for answering important biological questions. “To this end, I have focused my research upon the development of novel models and tools which allow assessment of normal tissue biology, cancer stem cell behaviour, tumour heterogeneity, the tissue micro-environment and metastasis,” says Hannah.

“Whilst developing our explant model of normal human breast tissue, I spent many hours scoring tissues for expression of hormones receptors and markers of proliferation and apoptosis, amongst other things. Every so often I’d come across an amazing structure or beautiful staining pattern and this is one of my favourites – a mammary tree.”

Hannah’s work is funded by Prevent Breast Cancer.

Interested in taking part? Drop us an email today with your wonderful moments of science. T&Cs apply.

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To enter, e-mail your photos to [email protected] with a short caption and your contact details. Images should be sent as JPEG files and, ideally, be at least 2000px. Feel free to email this address if you have any questions.

Each month, a panel of CRUK staff will review the submissions and choose the best image(s) that month. Successful entrants will be notified directly and the image(s) will be showcased on Cancer News for Researchers and our social-media platforms X and LinkedIn.

The campaign is open to UK residents aged 18 or over. Please ensure before submitting an entry that you have read the campaign terms and conditions.

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