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FocalPlane playlist: Rita Strack

Posted by Rita Strack, on 7 February 2024

I was really excited to be invited to create a blog post with my very own “microscopy mix tape” on the FocalPlane blog. I am a huge fan of the work The Company of Biologists does, and I am a consummate consumer of all things FocalPlane as well. Just by way of quick introduction, I

Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Uri Manor

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 24 January 2024

OPEN DISSEMINATION OF NOVEL IMAGING TOOLS FOR THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY Uri Manor is an imaging scientist with a background in cell biology and computational methods. His project focuses on building new probes to improve and accelerate research, and on using artificial intelligence to break barriers in the way we do microscopy. What was the inspiration

FocalPlane playlist: Christophe Leterrier

Posted by Christophe Leterrier, on 14 November 2023

Discover the preprints, papers and FocalPlane content that Christophe Leterrier has found interesting in recent months!

Advances in Expansion Microscopy

Posted by Victoria Alonso, on 4 August 2023

Expansion microscopy was introduced in 2015 by Boyden and his team, revolutionizing the way we see biological samples under a microscope1. Taking advantage of the power of physical enlargement, ExM pushes spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit, allowing us to observe intricate details at previously unimaginable levels. The underlying principle of ExM lies in a

The FocalPlane correspondents: Mariana De Niz

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 27 June 2023

At the beginning of the year, we announced that we will be working with three correspondents, who will be helping us to develop and write content for FocalPlane. We caught up with each of them to chat about their research backgrounds and the topics that they’re excited to write about. This interview is with Mariana

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 April 2022

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks on Twitter and beyond. Talks, training and workshops: From Images to Knowledge (I2K) is a virtual conference tackling the issue of quantitative analysis of microscopy images. It takes place in early May, and registration is

An interview with Erica Martins Duarte

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 22 March 2022

Erica Martins-Duarte currently acts as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Parasitology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she develops projects focused on the discovery of new treatments for acute and chronic toxoplasmosis, characterization of drug resistance in atypical Brazilian isolates, and the impact of the infection by atypical isolates of Toxoplasma gondii

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 March 2022

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 reporters’ Martin Jones and Parash Prasad who helped us create this list. Twitter Microscopes and imaging tools: miPolScope, multimodal instant polarization microscope https://twitter.com/mattersOfLight/… Python bindings for micro-manager note installable via

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 24 December 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: Marijn Siemons continues sharing updates on his #aSnoutyTale https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/… A useful tip for those using expansion

preLights – FocalPlane social writing event

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 October 2021

On Thursday 30 September we hosted our first social writing event in collaboration with our sister site preLights. preLights is the preprint highlighting service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists. Their dedicated team of scientists (the ‘preLighters’) select, highlight and comment on preprints they feel are of particular interest

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Microscopy-related articles from our journals

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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