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Alfred Millett-Sikking @amsikking.bsky.social · 2d

The future of High-Content Imaging has arrived.

-> Ultra-fast 3D imaging of multi-well plates at high resolution using an air objective!

See previous posts and the new miOPM preprint for details: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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xipeng1.bsky.social @xipeng1.bsky.social · 1d

Triangle-Beam Interference SIM (3I-SIM)—a method replaces rotating stripes with hexagonal lattice. This innovation slashes redundancy and unlocks breathtaking speed. The system achieves imaging at up to 1,697 Hz, 13 hours, 100,000 snapshots in action: www.sciencenewstoday.org/the-secret-w...

The Secret World of Living Cells Comes Alive With a New Microscope

For as long as humans have peered through lenses, the microscope has been our gateway to hidden worlds. From Robert…

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Kai Murk @kaimurk.bsky.social · 2d

This #microscopymonday is a cleaning day. Watch how a #microglia cell mops up and phagozytoses debris and junk in a very messy neuronal co-culture. BTW, it was a proper cleaning job → the neurons made it and formed nice networks
Phase contrast imaging started at DIV1. One frame per 20 min.

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GBM (Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie) @gbmev.bsky.social · 5d

Registration open: 77. Mosbacher Kolloquium "More than lipidic barriers - New horizons in membrane biology" from March 25-28, 2026
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Scientific Organizers: Britta Brügger, Robert Ernst, André Nadler, Christian Ungermann
Early registration & poster abstracts until January 31, 2026

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · 5d

Lipid imaging on the cover of @nature.com! Great times for lipid cell biology indeed. And a fantastic recognition of all the hard work by the team, especially Juan M. Iglesias-Artola and Kristin Böhlig (who made the cover). Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Shifaan Thowfeequ @shifaant.bsky.social · 6d

The 'sparks' of life! Our latest work on the role of #calcium dynamics in the early #embryo. 🎇🔬🐁

@idrm.ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social @srinivas-lab.bsky.social #lightsheetmicroscopy #GCAMP

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 7d

During #development, distal visceral #endoderm (DVE) cells migrate to shape A-P axis specification. @m-stower.bsky.social @srinivas-lab.bsky.social &co reveal the role of Ca2+ dynamics in this, showing that inhibition of #calcium transients causes DVE arrest @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nHWxF4

Epiblast Ca2+ waves propagate from the apical to basal domain. The images show selected time points from movies of E5.5 GCaMP6f embryos imaged using a ZEISS lattice light-sheet 7 microscope. Top row: An example of an epiblast wave involving a large proportion of the tissue captured by imaging a volume of the embryo at 20-s intervals. A total of 9/16 embryos showed at least one epiblast Ca2+ wave. Bottom row: Faster imaging at 5-s interval revealed that the Ca2+ wave in the epiblast can be preceded by a transient in a neighboring VE cell—this was observed in 5/19 events from 9 embryos (white arrowheads).

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Miki Ebisuya @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social · 6d

New preprint from the lab! We discovered a transient fluidization in the basal region of human forebrains by tracking microdroplets in cerebral organoids.This “basal fluidization”, absent in gorilla and mouse, may contribute to greater surface expansion in human forebrains
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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 6d

Wow - very fun "imaging" approach.

You had me at "We bombard living cells with millions of nanoparticles traveling at 1000 m/s."🎯💣

-> Reading list. 📖👓

bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 6d

Ballistic Microscopy (BaM) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.681030v1

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 18d

Fluorescence lifetime estimation: a practical approach using Flipper-TR FLIM by Juan Manuel Garcia-Arcos and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Frequency dependence of fast-lifetime FLIM and fits for C2C12 cells.

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 21d

Squeezed light field microscopy (SLIM) combines concepts from tomography and compressed sensing with light field microscopy for volumetric imaging at kilohertz rates.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kilohertz volumetric imaging of in vivo dynamics using squeezed light field microscopy - Nature Methods

Squeezed light field microscopy (SLIM) combines ideas from tomography and compressed sensing with light field microscopy to enable volumetric imaging at kilohertz rates, as demonstrated in blood flow imaging in zebrafish and voltage imaging in leeches and mice.

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Lew Lab @ WashU @lewlab.com · 26d

Happy to share our recent review in @natphoton.nature.com on #singlemolecule #orientation #localization #microscopy, co-authored with Sophie Brasselet @cnrs.fr @institutfresnel.bsky.social. See molecule motions and rotations in action! doi.org/10.1038/s415... @washuengineers.bsky.social @washu.edu

Single-molecule orientation and localization microscopy - Nature Photonics

The Review discusses recent advances in single-molecule orientation and localization microscopy (SMOLM) along with remaining challenges and promises for future developments of the field.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 26d

Trainees: Struggling to find the best figure arrangement for a manuscript draft? Do the 🧪 equivalent of an arts and crafts project:

1. Print draft figures and cut each panel into its own square.
2. Find a big table.
3. Move the panels around until you see the story.

This is your paper. 🤓

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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 28d

Attending a workshop can shape your thinking and science.

My first blog post @focalplane.bsky.social about my journey from being a student on an @mblscience.bsky.social course to returning as faculty teaching in @pair-up.bsky.social microscopy course

focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/14/t...

There and Back Again – An MBL Story - FocalPlane

There and Back Again – An MBL Story - News

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Itay Budin @ibudin.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors - Nature Chemical Biology

An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as the visualization of lipid tra...

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 28d

There and back again – An @mblscience.bsky.social story
We hear about @faldalf.bsky.social‘s experience at MBL starting with the Physical Biology of the Cell course as a student in 2018, before returning as a teacher for the recent PAIR-UP microscopy course.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/14/t...

There and Back Again – An MBL Story - FocalPlane

There and Back Again – An MBL Story - News

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Akaash Kumar @akaashkumar.bsky.social · 28d

🚨Publication alert🚨
My first, first-author paper is now out in @natphoton.nature.com! Our paper describes an iterative spectral unmixing algorithm and eight-channel camera-based hardware we developed enabling unmixing of low SNR live-cell data at video rates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Multispectral live-cell imaging with uncompromised spatiotemporal resolution - Nature Photonics

A tree-like arrangement of dichroic mirrors and multiple cameras coupled with an iterative spectral unmixing algorithm enables multispectral imaging of live cells in up to eight spectral channels with...

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Gabriel Abrahams @gabriel-abrahams.bsky.social · 28d

www.sciencenews.org/article/biol...

Scientists made a biological quantum bit out of a fluorescent protein

Researchers could use quantum effects to develop new types of medical imaging inside cells themselves.

www.sciencenews.org

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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 28d

Attending a workshop can shape your thinking and science.

My first blog post @focalplane.bsky.social about my journey from being a student on an @mblscience.bsky.social course to returning as faculty teaching in @pair-up.bsky.social microscopy course

focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/14/t...

There and Back Again – An MBL Story - FocalPlane

There and Back Again – An MBL Story - News

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Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social · Sep 7

Polysomes and mRNA control the biophysical properties of the eukaryotic cytoplasm

Gade et al. report that polysomes and mRNA levels impact the biophysical properties of the cytoplasm. Using passive rheology probes and single-particle tracking, they demonstrate that intracellular diffusion is enhanced when polysomes are disassembled or when mRNA levels are reduced in eukaryotic cells.

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Erdinc Sezgin @sciezgin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Previous preprint is now published in RSC Chemical Biology.
If you are interested in plasma membrane labeling, see the paper! 👇
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Dr. Allyson Sgro @allysonsgro.bsky.social · Aug 30

Anyone know where I can buy this hex key set?

A hand holding a rainbow-colored hex key set.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Aug 30

Can cellular life be created in the lab? We are not yet there, but clearly getting closer! Check this paper where a new scenario for protocell replication is presented by Job Boekhoven and co-workers @manlius.bsky.social www.cell.com/chem/pdf/S24...

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Aurelia @vesiclesmasher.bsky.social · Aug 30

For details of measured forces, comparisons with model systems, actin monitoring, and speculation about glycocalyx dimensions please have a look at our preprint!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Flow transports extracellular lipid-anchored proteins across the surface of living COS-7 cells

The rapid diffusion of membrane lipids and membrane proteins in living cell plasma membranes demonstrates that the membrane is fluid. However, motion of membrane molecules is inhibited on one side by ...

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Aurelia @vesiclesmasher.bsky.social · Aug 30

I am so excited for everyone to see this! Dr. Sreeja Sasidharan, legendary postdoc, recently showed that flow moves proteins sideways through a glass-supported lipid bilayer. We wanted to see if this could happen on the surface of living cells! AND IT CAN

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