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See a slideshow of the shortlisted images

One of the key goals of biologists around the world is to understand the internal workings of cells, in particular how they go wrong in diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s.

A new competition celebrates this work by highlighting the best images of cells. The is run by to promote their , a system for producing detailed images of cells’ workings.

The company asked the scientists who used the system to submit their best images to the competition, which until 5 January 2009.

See a slideshow of the shortlisted images