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Featured image with Maik Bischoff

Posted by , on 18 July 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Maik Bischoff, captures a portion of the testis from the fruit fly Drosophila hydei. Like all insect testes, it is enveloped by a muscle layer. F-actin was stained using phalloidin, making the muscle fibers visible, while DAPI staining revealed the multiple nuclei within each syncytial myotube. An antibody against Drosophila
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Featured image with Omkar Joshi

Posted by , on 14 March 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Omkar Joshi, showcases a U2OS cell immunostained for paxillin (green), TOMM20 (mitochondria, white), and F-actin (labelled using SiR-Actin, magenta), with DAPI (yellow) marking the nucleus.
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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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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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