FocalPlane

Posts from the FocalPlane team

Featured image with Nick Gatford

Posted by FocalPlane, on 16 November 2023

Our featured image shows a single human dopaminergic neuron generated from a human stem cell, acquired via super-resolution Airyscan confocal microscopy at the University of Oxford Micron facility by Nick Gatford. We caught up with Nick to find out about his research and what he is excited about in microscopy.

How to Minimise Photodamage with LED illumination

Sponsored by CoolLED, on 15 November 2023

Both fixed and live samples are susceptible to photodamage during fluorescence microscopy, which can shorten time-lapse experiments and cast doubt on observations. LED illumination for widefield fluorescence has the potential to counter this serious problem, whether running a complete experiment or simply finding the region of interest prior to confocal microscopy. Exposing biological samples to

New look for FocalPlane

Posted by FocalPlane, on 13 November 2023

We are delighted to launch a new look for FocalPlane. Every day this week, we’ll be releasing a new banner image and highlighting the scientist that acquired it. Today, we start with an image from Rebecca Simkin. Rebecca won our 2023 image competition, and you can read our featured image post with Rebecca here: https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/09/01/and-the-winner-is/