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Featured image with Julien Rességuier

Posted by , on 22 December 2023

Our featured image, acquired by Julien Rességuier, shows the branchial cavity lymphoid architecture of an adult zebrafish. It is a 2D projection of a 3D multi-field of view acquisition of a transversal cryosection (30 μm) that has been stained with fluorescent phalloidin (inverted LUT – grey/copper) and DAPI (blue) to reveal tissue structures and labelled
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Science Communications Officer at The Company of Biologists

Posted by , on 18 December 2023

We are currently recruiting for an exciting Science Communications role to enhance the community content on our journal websites and grow our social media presence in China through our WeChat channel.
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Upcoming webinar: A deep dive into biomolecular condensates using single-molecule FRET

Posted by , on 11 December 2023

We are delighted to open the registration for our FocalPlane features… webinar with Samrat Mukhopadhyay. The webinar, co-hosted with PicoQuant, will take place on Zoom on Thursday 11 January at 14:00 GMT (15:00 CET and 19:30 IST). Samrat will talk about recent research from his group at IISER Mohali describing the use of single-molecule FRET
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Featured image with Joe McKellar

Posted by , on 8 December 2023

Our featured image shows a culture of boa constrictor kidney cells that have been transfected with a fusogenic viral protein. This leads to the formation of giant multi-nucleated cells. The cells were transfected with the fusogenic viral protein (shown in gold), left several days for efficient protein expression and for cell fusion to occur, plated
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Quizzing with the Node, preLights and FocalPlane

Posted by , 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
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Upcoming webinar: A Deep Dive into Biomolecular Condensates Using Single-Molecule FRET

Sponsored by PicoQuant, on 22 November 2023

In a brand-new paper, Ashish Joshi and colleagues from the team of Samrat Mukhopadhyay at IISER Mohali take a close look at the molecular events during phase separation of the FUS protein with single-molecule fluorescence methods. If you want to learn more about these techniques and what they revealed about the complex behavior of the
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Featured image with Nick Gatford

Posted by , 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.
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Featured image with Oona Paavolainen

Posted by , on 15 November 2023

Our featured image, acquired by Oona Paavolainen, shows a primary mammary gland organoid, in a collagen-I matrix, formed from a single primary epithelial cell isolated from material obtained from a breast reduction surgery. The image was taken with a spinning disk confocal microscope (3i CSU-W1 Spinning disk) using a 20x Zeiss Plan-Apochromat (NA=0.8) objective. The
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Featured image with Till Stephan

Posted by , on 14 November 2023

Our featured image, acquired by Till Stephan, shows a live-cell stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy recording of a HeLa cell in which mitochondria (orange-magenta) and microtubules (cyan) are labelled. The super-resolution image reveals the densely stacked mitochondrial cristae, coordinated invaginations of the mitochondrial inner membrane.
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New look for FocalPlane

Posted by , on 13 November 2023

We are delighted to launch a new look for FocalPlane. Every day this week, we’ll be releasing a new banner image and highlighting the scientist that acquired it. Today, we start with an image from Rebecca Simkin. Rebecca won our 2023 image competition, and you can read our featured image post with Rebecca here: https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/09/01/and-the-winner-is/
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