Micro-imaging winner: Going round and round by Leandro Lemgruber. At the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, one research group studies the exploitation of the host’s own immune system by helminth parasites. The group uses a rodent parasite, Heligmosomoides polygyrus, which inhabits the intestinal space of its host and coils around the intestinal villi. (Photo by Leandro Lemgruber/Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation University of Glasgow/Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2018)
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