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Featured image with Emily Oren

Posted by , 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.
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Featured image with Nat Prunet

Posted by , 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.
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Featured image with Julia Zheku

Posted by , 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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Featured image with Ioannis Theodorou

Posted by , on 27 February 2026

Our featured image, from Ioannis Theodorou, was acquired with Leica Stellaris 8 and the TauSeparation mode. It is the TauContrast channel and it shows the average fluorophore lifetime per pixel. The image was processed on Las X and inkscape. The region shown comes from compressed wood tissue.
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Featured image with Jan Martinek

Posted by , on 13 February 2026

Our featured image is a spinning disk fluorescence micrograph, acquired by Jan Martinek, showing an Arabidopsis thaliana root that formed a spiral on a forgotten Petri dish lying flat on the bench. In this orientation, the root cannot grow downward gravitropically, so it keeps turning.
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Featured image with Denise Scuffi

Posted by , on 30 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Denise Scuffi, shows stomata – small pores surrounded by a pair of specialised cells known as guard cells – from Arabidopsis thaliana expressing the fluorescent biosensor roGFP2-Orp1 in the cytosol, which enables in vivo monitoring of intracellular H₂O₂ dynamics.
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Featured image with Ivan Radin

Posted by , on 16 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Ivan Radin, shows a few epidermal cells of tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) leaf, expressing cytosolic GFP. There is a significant variability in expression levels between cells. The brightest region is the nucleus, which is surrounded by a large central vacuole.  The cytosol is restricted to the cell periphery. Transvacuolar strands connect
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Featured image with Christina Daly

Posted by , on 6 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Christina Daly, is of an E9.5 murine neural tube. The embryo was fixed in 4% Paraformaldehyde, embedded in agarose, and vibratome-sectioned at 100 mm thickness. The sections were stained with for F-actin with phalloidin and imaged on a Nikon A1R confocal.
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Vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025

Posted by , on 19 December 2025

Throughout 2025, we highlighted some fantastic images and researchers in our 'Featured image' series. Here is your chance to vote for your favourite.
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Featured image with Aswathy G Krishnan

Posted by , on 10 October 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Aswathy G Krishnan, depicts a neural rosette of a cerebral organoid derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC). The organoids were collected, fixed, dehydrated, embedded in tissue freezing media and cryosectioned at 20 µm thickness. Then, the sections were immunolabelled and imaged under confocal microscope at 60X magnification. The
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