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Featured image with Simon Desiderio

Posted by , on 21 April 2023

Our featured image shows the developing dorsal root ganglia of an E12.5 mouse embryo from Simon Desiderio.
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Featured image with Elkhan Yusifov and Martina Schättin

Posted by , on 10 March 2023

Our featured image, ‘Two eyes looking at an eye’, shows the developing neurons in the eye of a 7-day-old chick embryo. We caught up with Elkhan Yusifov and Martina Schättin to find out more about the image, their research and what they are excited about in microscopy.
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Tissue clearing: what invisible samples reveal about biology

Posted by , on 8 September 2021

Written by Jorge Almagro and Hendrik Messal The tissues that constitute organs exist in our body in 3D. However, for practical reasons, histological analysis has been traditionally performed in 2D, slicing a few micrometer-thick sections to analyse them under the microscope. While this has been critical to understand our anatomy for centuries, it constitutes a simplification of
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