Incredible heart-shaped cell entangled in a blood clot

This astounding photo of a heart-shaped cell entangled in a blood clot has won the British Hearth Foundation's 2017 photo contest. In the image, which was captured through an electron microscope, red blood cells are trapped in the 3D mesh of fibrin fibres, which hold the clot together. The cell had remarkably been compressed into a heart shape by the contracting fibres surrounding it. Taken by Fraser Macrae, a BHF-funded researcher at the University of Leeds, this image shows a heart-shaped cell entangled in a blood clot held together by a mesh of fibrin fibres. Taken at 5,000-times magnification, this image shows a heart-shaped cell entangled in a blood clot.