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JCS snapshots: the cilia and flagella edition

Posted by FocalPlane, on 24 November 2025

Journal of Cell Science recently published a Special Issue on Cilia and Flagella: from Basic Biology to Disease, edited by Pleasantine Mill and Lotte Pedersen. We invited the authors of the research published in this issue to produce JCS snapshots, short videos highlighting the key findings from their papers. Below, you can find the snapshots

New JCS snapshot - Phosphorylation of VAMP3 couples IL-6 exocytosis to dendritic cell activation

Posted by FocalPlane, on 19 November 2025

In this JCS snapshot, we hear from Harry Warner who, together with Tongxiang Chen, Anthi Psoma, Geert van den Bogaart and colleagues, discovered that phosphorylation of VAMP3 couples IL-6 exocytosis to dendritic cell activation.

An Introduction to the Croatian Microscopy Society

Posted by FocalPlane, on 19 November 2025

The origins of the Croatian Microscopy Society (CMS) can be traced back to 1983, when the Section for Electron Microscopy was established within the Croatian Society of Natural History at the initiative of Prof. Zvonimir Devidé, the first head of the Section. What began as a small group of enthusiasts meeting in Zagreb to exchange