13:28 11 March 2014
The overall winner of the 2014 Wellcome Image Awards will be announced later today. This year all 18 winning images will go on show simultaneously at five major science venues in the UK – the Wellcome Trust's headquarters in London, Glasgow Science Centre, the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester, Techniquest in Cardiff and W5 in Belfast – as well as at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There will also be a display at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, during the Cambridge Science Festival. Here's a selection of our favourites. Caroline Morley
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This is a micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scan of a jawbone that belonged to a child buried in an 8th- to 10th-century cemetery at Raunds in the English Midlands. Kevin Mackenzie at the University of Aberdeen, UK, used X-rays to create 4800 digital slices of the jaw (brown) and teeth (blue). The digital model allows researchers to examine internal features without damaging the original.
(Image: Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen)
