Latest winner in our Research is Beautiful competition

Our Research is Beautiful image competition continues to impress with some fabulous entries, but there has to be a winner each month and here’s the successful image for May…

This entry is part 19 of 19 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 Oyindamola Ajisegiri, a histologist at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford. The image shows a knee joint section stained with Picrosirius Red showing the femur, tibia, cartilage, and meniscus viewed under a polarised light microscope.

Picrosirius red (PSR) staining of a collagen rich knee joint showing the femur, tibia and meniscus viewed under polarised light microscope. The combination of the histological stain and polarised light is used to identify collagen fibres in tissue sections. Type I collagen fibres(thick) appear yellowish-orange to red. Type III collagen in green.

Oyindamola said: “I provide day-to-day histology services for various research projects/groups. Part of the research groups I support is led by Professor Tonia Vincent. The group comprises brilliant scientists who focus on understanding the cause, progression, and treatment of osteoarthritis.

“Histology is crucial to this work as it helps examine structural changes in joint tissues and assess the effects of the disease.”

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Include a short caption, your contact details and an image of yourself. 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 will be awarded £100 in book tokens. The image(s) will be showcased on Cancer News for Researchers and our social-media platform LinkedIn.

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