The Biomedical Image Awards 2006 is given out by the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library. The winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges, present the artistic side to their research by capturing the excitement, elegance, colors and patterns that are found in all living things.

On the website you can listen to audio clips of each microphotographer talking about their work, you can vote for your favorite image and even submit your own. The site also gives a nice overview of the different imaging techniques used by the artists/scientists.

Is it wrong that since looking at the gallery of breathtaking photos, I’ve made an electron microscope scan of mouldy bread my desktop image?