FocalPlane

Posts from the FocalPlane team

Quizzing with the Node, preLights and FocalPlane

Posted by FocalPlane, on 1 December 2023

As the end of the year approaches, the community sites hosted by The Company of Biologists would like to bring you some holiday cheer. For your pleasure, the Community Managers at the Node, preLights and FocalPlane have created an end-of-year quiz! Starting on Monday, we’ll be posting one question per day on our social media

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