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Microscopy preprints – applications in cell and developmental biology

Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 March 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.

Image checklists v1.0 from QUAREP-LiMi

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 16 March 2023

QUAREP-LiMi (Quality Assessment and Reproducibility for Instruments and Images in Light Microscopy) is a community group of light microscopists, science communicators, business representatives, vendors and application specialists aiming to improve both quality assessment and quality control in microscopy. QUAREP-LiMi is organised into (currently) 13 working groups, focusing on areas such as illumination power, lateral and

Microscopy preprints – new tool and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 14 March 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.

preLights’ 5th Birthday webinar: A career discussion with preLights alumni

Posted by Reinier Prosee, on 7 March 2023

Our sister community site preLights will host a career discussion webinar to celebrate its 5th birthday. It will feature talks given by preLights alumni who have taken a range of career paths.

Microscopy preprints – bioimage analysis tools

Posted by FocalPlane, on 1 March 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we focus specifically on preprints on bioimage analysis, including an introduction to quantification in microscopy data from Siân Culley and colleagues.

Microscopy preprints – applications in cell and developmental biology

Posted by FocalPlane, on 17 February 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post we have a bumper crop of preprints using microscopy tools in cell biology and developmental biology.

Microscopy preprints – new tool and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 2 February 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints posted recently on new tools and techniques in imaging, including a tool from Lukas Kapitein and colleagues for accurately measuring expansion for ExM and a comparison between spectral separation and demixing for fast multicolour SMLM from Christophe Leterrier and colleagues.

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 24 January 2023

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks on Twitter and beyond.

Microscopy preprints – bioimage analysis tools

Posted by FocalPlane, on 18 January 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we focus specifically on preprints on bioimage analysis.

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 10 January 2023

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks on Twitter and beyond.

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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

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