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Featured image with Ramiro Tomasina

Posted by FocalPlane, on 12 July 2023

Our featured image shows an ultrastructure expansion microscopy image of a procyclic Trypanosoma brucei labelled with anti-acetylated tubulin in magenta, DAPI in cyan and a flagellar marker in yellow. The image is a z-projection of maximum intensity. The image was acquired in the Trypanosoma cell biology unit at the Institut Pasteur of Paris (headed by Philippe Bastin),

FocalPlane image competition - vote for your favourite

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 July 2023

Thanks to everyone who entered our 2023 image competition, we were delighted to receive so many wonderful entries. We have shortlisted 10 images for our public vote. You can vote using the poll at the bottom of this page and the image with the most votes will be featured on the cover of Journal of

Microscopy preprints – applications in cell and developmental biology

Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 June 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools in cell biology and developmental biology.

Community collective: essential optimisation

Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 June 2023

Microscopy images have the ability to wow us, and the data we can extract from them can help answer our research questions, as well as leading us to pose new ones. Advances in sample preparation and microscopy technology means we have never been in a better position to use imaging in biology but is it

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 16 June 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints posted recently on new tools and techniques in imaging. Let us know if we are missing any preprints that are on your reading list.