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Our featured image, acquired by Jiwon Lee, is a 3D rendering model of Plasmodium falciparum showing the complex organisation of cellular organelles within the malaria parasite. Using a focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM), a series of high resolution 2D images were acquired. The image stack was aligned and each organelle was segmented in the program MIB (Microscopy Image Browser) before the rendering process with Dragonfly software. This method provides nanometer scale resolution with a 3D perspective, enabling to study how organelles develop and how they interact with each other. Given the parasite’s small size, such intricate structural information is typically challenging to obtain, yet FIB-SEM’s 3D capabilities allow us to visualise and gain new insight into P. falciparum’s complex structure.

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