This striking image, produced by Eammon Kennedy of Notre Dame, is a composite of six Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) topographs of cancer cells. Programmed cell death (apoptosis) has been induced by laser irradiation.

This image won 2nd place in The Biophysical Society’s annual Science of Art competition, in 2017.

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