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Featured image with Elena Nicolay

Posted by FocalPlane, on 11 September 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Elena Nicolay, shows double-transgenic zebrafish larvae in a Pop Art-style collage, with macrophages and neurons depicted in different colours.

Featured image with Luz María Fuentealba Pérez

Posted by FocalPlane, on 28 August 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Luz María Fuentealba Pérez, shows the last breath of Arabidopsis thaliana, the most widely used plant model worldwide.

Featured image with Mayuri Varma

Posted by FocalPlane, on 14 August 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Mayuri Varma, shows a human iPSC-derived cortical organoid stained for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), a well-established marker of astrocytes.

Featured image with Saheli Roy

Posted by FocalPlane, on 3 August 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Saheli Roy, depicts a maximum intensity projection of a female Drosophila melanogaster‘s reproductive system – both ovaries, lateral and common oviducts, uterus and seminal receptacle (an organ for sperm storage that allows the female fly to control fertilization). The ovaries are full of auto-fluorescent developing and mature eggs, because the

Featured image with Manomay Pawar

Posted by FocalPlane, on 20 July 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Manomay Pawar, depicts MDA-MB-231 triple negative breast cancer cells treated with drug Bemcentinib (R428), a small molecule inhibitor of AXL (a receptor tyrosine kinase) and labelled with phalloidin (actin;green), anti-Paxillin antibody to mark focal adhesions (magenta) and DAPI (DNA;yellow). The white coloured puncta represent colocalisation of paxillin with the ends

Featured image with Joan Roncero Carol

Posted by FocalPlane, on 3 July 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Joan Roncero Carol, shows two mouse preimplantation blastocysts at E4.5 showing immunofluorescence staining against LAMP1 to visualize lysosomal distribution at this developmental stage, together with phalloidin staining to clearly outline cell membranes.

Featured image with Brittany Carr

Posted by FocalPlane, on 24 April 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Brittany Carr, shows the rod and cone photoreceptor outer segments from a tadpole retina. Photoreceptor outer segments are responsible for capturing photons of light and transducing them into chemical signals. Frog rods are large, so this image also shows the incisures, which are invaginations into the outer segment that gives

Featured image with Emily Oren

Posted by FocalPlane, on 10 April 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Emily Oren, shows the surface stiffness of an Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyl. It was acquired using a Bruker Biowizard 5 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and is of plasmolysed epidermal cells on a live seedling.

Featured image with Nat Prunet

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 March 2026

Our featured image from Nat Prunet is a composite image of pollen grains from various plant species. Each pollen grain was imaged separately for red autofluorescence with super-resolution Airyscan on a Zeiss LSM 980 microscope. 3D datasets were processed on Fiji with edge-finding and color-coding for depth.

Featured image with Julia Zheku

Posted by FocalPlane, on 13 March 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Julia Zheku, depicts a maize (corn) cross section, with a developing nodal root dynamically breaking through the basal stem node which is typically found below the soil surface. Such a root is not visible while sectioning, making this a beautiful, yet lucky, image. The section was prepared by mounting the

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Toggle-Untoggle – a cell segmentation tool with an interactive user verification interface J Cell Sci 2025 138: jcs264154
The ratio of Wnt signaling activity to Sox2 transcription factor levels predicts neuromesodermal fate potential Development 2025 152: dev204661
The short isoform of Tango1 is dispensable for zebrafish survival but is required for skeletal patterning and integrity Biology Open 2025 14: bio062117

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