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Featured image with Saurabh Chand Sagar
Posted by FocalPlane, on 25 April 2025

Microscopy preprints – bioimage analysis
Posted by FocalPlane, on 18 April 2025

FLIMposium – Wednesday 7th May – King’s College London
Posted by siân culley, on 15 April 2025
The FLIMposium is a one-day symposium dedicated to the latest advances in Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM). The event will take place on Wednesday, 7th of May, at the Science Gallery, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London. The symposium will feature keynote speakers and invited talks across three main themes: There will also be lightning talks and interactive breakout discussionsMicroscopy Meets Medicine: Spirulina-Derived Nanoparticles Take Aim at Cancer
Posted by SANGRAM POLLEY, on 14 April 2025

Essay competition: Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events
Posted by Teodora Andreea Rînciog, on 11 April 2025

Featured image with Subhajit Karmakar
Posted by FocalPlane, on 11 April 2025

Boston Bioimage Analysis Course (BoBiAC)
Posted by Federico Gasparoli, on 10 April 2025
The Image Analysis Collaboratory and the Core for Imaging Technology & Education at Harvard Medical School are organizing the Boston Bioimage Analysis Course (BoBiAC), a 6-day intensive program offering a hands-on introduction to image processing and analysis on fluorescence microscopy images with Python! If you answered yes to these questions, then this course is for
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Image credits
Neuromuscular junctions – Rebecca Simkins
Mitochondria and microtubules – Till Stephan
Mammary gland organoid – Oona Paavolainen
Dopaminergic neuron – Nick Gatford
CLEM HeLa cell – Marie-Charlotte Domart, Chris Peddie
Microscopy-related articles from our journals
- HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples Development 2024 151: dev202307
- filoVision – using deep learning and tip markers to automate filopodia analysis J Cell Sci 2024 137: jcs261274
- Computational tools for quantifying actin filament numbers, lengths, and bundling Biology Open 2024 13: bio.060267
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