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Recent posts
GerBI team forYoung Microscopists And Image Analysts (YMIA)
Posted by Friederike Kessel, on 30 March 2023
Annotating 3D images in napari
Posted by Mara Lampert, on 30 March 2023
Microscopy preprints – applications in cell and developmental biology
Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 March 2023
An interview with Mauricio Peñarrieta
Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 28 March 2023
Have you heard of Euro-BioImaging?
Posted by FocalPlane, on 23 March 2023
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Microscopy-related articles from our journals
- Dynamics of intracellular cGMP during chemotaxis in Dictyostelium cells Journal of Cell Science 2023 136: jcs.260591
- GliaMorph: a modular image analysis toolkit to quantify Müller glial cell morphology Development 2023 150: dev.201008
- A novel class of sulphonamides potently block malaria transmission by targeting a Plasmodium vacuole membrane protein Disease Models & Mechanisms 2023 16: dmm.049950
Microscopy-related preprint highlights
- An improved Erk biosensor reveals oscillatory Erk dynamics driven by mitotic erasure during early development
- Genetically encoded multimeric tags for intracellular protein localisation in cryo-EM
- Plasmodesmal connectivity in C4 Gynandropsis gynandra is induced by light and dependent on photosynthesis
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