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Recent posts

A new version of TrackMate with improved integration of key AI algorithms and track edition improvements

Posted by Jean-Yves Tinevez, on 12 December 2025

We’re excited to announce TrackMate v8.1, the latest version of Fiji’s powerful cell and organelle tracking plugin. This release combines all the major features from v8 with important usability improvements, making TrackMate more useful and easier to use than ever before. What is TrackMate? TrackMate is an extensible, open-source tracking software designed for biologists and

Microscopy preprints – applications in biology

Posted by FocalPlane, on 12 December 2025

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools to answer questions in biology.

Damage done, tubules on – Studying membrane damaged-induced lysosomal tubulation

Posted by talcualmal, on 11 December 2025

In this post, I’ll told you the “ins and outs” of our last publication in JCB about lysosomal tubulation in response to damage.

Imaging spotlight: u-Segment3D

Posted by FocalPlane, on 11 December 2025

In this paper highlight, we learn about u-Segment3D, a software framework developed by Felix Zhou and Gaudenz Danuser and colleagues.

CCP volume EM OME-NGFF Hackathon 2026

Posted by Martin Jones, on 11 December 2025

This hackathon will run from 11th of March to the 13th of March 2026. Participants will spend 3 days working in small groups with a range of backgrounds on different aspects of how OME-NGFF can support volume EM analysis and data sharing.

New JCS snapshot: The MLL/WDR5 complex promotes midbody recruitment of KIF2C for microtubule depolymerisation and furrow initiation during cytokinesis

Posted by FocalPlane, on 10 December 2025

In our latest JCS snapshot we hear from Avishek Kataria, who, together with Shweta Tyagi and colleagues, discovered that the MLL/WDR5 complex promotes midbody recruitment of KIF2C for microtubule depolymerisation and furrow initiation during cytokinesis. In this snapshot, Avishek takes us through the key findings from their research.

Imaging with… INDICASAT AIP Advance Microscopy and Bioimaging Core Facility

Posted by FocalPlane, on 5 December 2025

In our ‘Imaging with…’ blog post, we meet the team at Nucleo de Microscopia Avanzada y Bioimagenes, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología de Panamá.

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