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Development presents... an Imaging Special

Posted by , on 12 October 2021

Development presents… is a webinar series hosted by Development. The webinars are chaired each month by a different Development Editor, who invites talks from authors of exciting new papers and preprints. First authors are particularly encouraged to present their work – we hope the series will become a forum for supporting early-career researchers. As well
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Microscopy preprints - New tools and techniques

Posted by , on 8 October 2021

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we focus specifically on new imaging tools only. Preprint selected by Pablo J. Sáez who also participated in our Hot Reads post this month: A turquoise fluorescence lifetime-based biosensor for quantitative imaging of intracellular calcium. Franka H. van der Linden, Eike K. Mahlandt,
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Hot reads

Posted by , on 5 October 2021

Our monthly post is back. We have asked different researchers to propose their favourite recently published papers (related to microscopy, of course). These are the suggestions for this month. We hope you find some interesting publications that were not included in your reading list. Margarida Barroso Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College,
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News digest

Posted by , on 1 October 2021

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks. Thank you to our ‘FocalPlane reporter’ Martin Jones who helped us create this list. Twitter Microscopes and imaging tools: CompassLSM https://twitter.com/MesoSpim/… Methods Primer on force spectroscopy of single cells https://twitter.com/AnkitaChem/… Bioimage analysis: Review on Deep
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Microscopy preLights

Posted by , on 23 September 2021

Here is your monthly post with a curated list of interesting microscopy-related preprints as well as preprint highlights written by preLighters. Thank you to the preLights community and the Node community manager, Helen Zenner, who helped us create this list. Here is a curated selection of preprints and highlights published in the last month: Imaging
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Reproducibility problems: what reproducibility problems??

Posted by , on 20 September 2021

Francis Bacon pointed out in the 17th Century that a lot of ‘science’ was performed by simply reciting the statements of authorities as a way to establish truths. He argued for a robust methodology for observing and recording phenomena and then carefully analysing that to then accept or reject the original hypothesis (Novum Organum, 1620).
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News digest

Posted by , on 17 September 2021

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the past month. Thank you to our ‘FocalPlane reporters’ – Martin Jones, Manish Kumar, Andrey Andreev and Parash Prasad – who helped us create this list. Twitter Microscopes and imaging tools: CoCos, optimising spectral resolution https://twitter.com/JJeffet/… PSF engineering to
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Microscopy preLights

Posted by , on 26 August 2021

Here is your monthly post with a curated list of interesting microscopy-related preprints as well as preprint highlights written by preLighters. Thank you to the preLights community and the Node community manager, Helen Zenner, who helped us create this list. Here is a curated selection of preprints and highlights published in the last month: Neuronal
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And the winner of the FocalPlane 1-year Anniversary image competition is...

Posted by , on 13 August 2021

We are sure that it was very difficult to choose and vote for only one image among the 64 fantastic images participating in the competition. After a week collecting votes from the community, the poll is closed and we have a winner. Congratulations to Tejeshwar C Rao! The image ‘Trippy Tension Turtle Tailing Treats’ received
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FocalPlane 1-year Anniversary image competition voting is open!

Posted by , on 4 August 2021

After 1 month of image submissions we are happy to announce that the image competition gallery is complete and voting is open (until 11 August, 5pm UK time). We have 64 fantastic images from 30 different people, covering a range of different microscopy techniques such as widefield, confocal, spinning disk, super-resolution, and electron microscopy. To
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