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Rachel W. Martin

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AI art is completely banned from my lab, and lately I have been pushing "stick figures >>> biorender/clip art" also.

The stick figure talks get so many compliments. Sometimes ppl laugh, but that's a plus. Everyone is tired of seeing the same canned graphics that may or may not be fit for purpose.

October 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Ben Vezina

@bananabenana.bsky.social

Some free options for university finance teams to consider:

- Zotero > Endnote (superior performance too)
- Inkscape + NIH BioArt/bioicons > Illustrator + BioRender
- SerialCloner/ApE > SnapGene
- LibreOffice > Microsoft suite
- OpenAlex > Web of Science analytics

October 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM Everybody can reply

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PLOS Biology

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#MitochondrialDynamics are important regulators of various cancer cell phenotypes. This Essay explores the role of mitochondrial dynamic regulators in #tumor growth & #metastasis, discussing how they can be targeted to develop novel intervention strategies @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4o4KtOo

Mitochondrial division and fusion control mitochondrial structure. Top: Mitochondrial division, mediated by DRP1, decreases mitochondrial size and increases their number. Mitochondrial fusion, controlled by MFNs and OPA1, counteracts division to maintain mitochondrial integrity. Mitochondrial degradation by mitophagy is influenced by mitochondrial size. Bottom: Parkin and OMA1 negatively regulate mitochondrial fusion. Parkin is activated by phosphorylation mediated by the kinase PINK1. Activated Parkin ubiquitinates MFN1, leading to its degradation. OMA1 regulates mitochondrial fusion by cleaving OPA1.DRP1, dynamin-related protein 1; FIS1, fission protein 1; MFF, mitochondrial fission factor; MFN, mitofusin; MID49/51, mitochondrial dynamics proteins of 49 and 51 kDa; MITOK/CCDC51, mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channel/coiled-coil domain-containing protein 51; OMA1, OMA1 zinc metallopeptidase; OPA1, optic atrophy 1; PINK1, PTEN induced kinase 1. Created in BioRender.

October 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM Everybody can reply

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Journal of Experimental Botany

@jxbotany.bsky.social

🌾🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🌾

Strigolactones exhibit a dual action by repressing tillering to indirectly promote barley grain size, while directly repressing grain size later during reproduction - Kelly et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪 @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social

Fig. 10.Overview of the function of SLs throughout barley development in response to changing conditions. (A) SLs balance the root:shoot ratio, increasing root investment in suboptimal conditions. (B) SLs regulate tillering during vegetative growth, repressing tillering and reducing grain number in suboptimal conditions. (C) During reproductive development, SLs influence assimilate translocation via regulating leaf senescence and potentially act in grains to repress grain size in suboptimal conditions. Created in BioRender. Tucker, M. (2025) https://BioRender.com/lfdibh2.

October 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Ralf Wittenbrink

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Die Studienautoren vergleichen Beobachtungen der immunologischen Auswirkungen von COVID-19- und HIV-Infektionen und stellen sie gegenüber.

Highlights

➡️ HIV/AIDS und COVID-19 sind vermeidbare Infektionskrankheiten mit chronischen systemischen Auswirkungen, einschließlich

Figure 1 A diagram illustrating the immunopathological mechanisms in HIV-1 infection. Created with BioRender. BioRender.com.

October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM Everybody can reply

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Ralf Wittenbrink

@ralfwittenbrink.bsky.social

Virus, seine Gefäßpathologie, seine Immunevasion, seine neurologischen Auswirkungen, seine systemischen Schäden und sein Beitrag zur bevölkerungsweiten Immunschwäche stellen langfristig eine erhebliche Bedrohung für die öffentliche Gesundheit dar. Ohne entschlossenes Handeln

Figure 2 A diagram illustrating the immunopathological mechanisms in SARS-CoV-2 infection. Created with BioRender. BioRender.com.

October 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM Everybody can reply

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Journal of Experimental Botany

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🌱 📖 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 📖 🌱

🔬 Mantz et al. review current methods and developments for mass spectrometry-based identification of protein termini and discuss their use for plant protease substrate identification 🔬

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪 @degradomics.bsky.social

Fig. 2.Plant proteases involved in various stages of plant life cycle, organelle import, and responses to abiotic or biotic stress. Important processes and pathways regulated by proteases mentioned in the text are indicated, and proteases investigated by N-terminome approaches are named. Green cells represent healthy cells, while (dark) brown cells represent dying/dead cells. The apoplast is displayed in grey color. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are schematically depicted in red colour, the cyanobacterium Synechocystis is indicated in the puddle next to the plant, and the green alga C. reinhardtii in the soil. Blue and violet ‘Pac-Mans’ depict plant and pathogen proteases, respectively. Created in BioRender. Huesgen Lab (2025) https://BioRender.com/6aue2gv.

October 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM Everybody can reply

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Ian Kremer

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Researchers develop new method to track Alzheimer’s disease in real time www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly... by @unistrathclyde.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness #science

Flat fiber-based photometry realizes fluorescent signals reflective of amyloid pathology in 5xFAD mice. (a) Flat fiber-based photometry system allows 405-nm LED light to pass through the flat fiber implanted in either 5xFAD or WT mouse brain. Emitted fluorescence light passes back through the flat fiber before being filtered to cut out excitation light and being focused onto a PMT. The light path was controlled by a series of mirrors (M), filters (F), and lenses (L). (b) Schematic of the experimental design. Mice were injected with Methoxy-X04 the day before being terminally anesthetized for photometry recordings. After, brain tissue was retrieved for histology, where photometry and histology signals underwent correlation analysis. Part of the diagram was created in BioRender. (c) Left: example in vivo fluorescent and post-mortem histology depth profiles. Solid line shows the median smoothed signal (window size: 4). Top right: coronal brain slice showing the flat fiber penetration track surrounded by Methoxy-X04-stained amyloid pathology. The white dashed line shows the penetration track. Scale: 1 mm. Bottom right: correlation analysis comparing photometry and histology depth profiles (r, Spearman’s rho). The black line shows a fitted linear regression. (d) Summary correlation coefficients across three different implant sites (two-sample t-test). 5xFAD, n=13 recordings from six mice. WT, n=11 recordings from seven mice. Squares, males; circles, females. (e) Classification performance based on in vivo photometry-based depth profiles.

October 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM Everybody can reply

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ACR Journals

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Among women with fibromyalgia, no overall differences were found in fecal microbial expression compared with controls, but Bacteroidetes & Fusobacteriota phyla were significantly associated with cognitive impairment & epigastric pain syndrome, respectively

ACROR
doi.org/10.1002/acr2...

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Fecal Microbiome in Women With Fibromyalgia: Functional Composition and Symptom Correlations. Graphical abstract created using BioRender

September 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM Everybody can reply

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Isabel

@isabelott.bsky.social

reject modernity (biorender)

embrace tradition (whatever this was, specifically)

a typewritten thesis from the late 1970s with a very aesthetically pleasing vintage diagram of aedes mosquito egg hatching determinants

September 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM Everybody can reply

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Genome Biology and Evolution

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Pajic, @gokcumenlab.bsky.social @spit-lab.bsky.social et al. explored the evolution of saliva-related SCPP genes, observing extensive diversification of SCPP genes within mammals, driven by gene duplications and losses.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf165

#genome #evolution #primates

SCPP gene presence/absence phylogeny. Blocks represent genes within the SCPP locus, color-coded by functional relevance: enamel (purple), milk (blue), saliva (yellow), and genes implicated in all three functions (red). The animal phylogeny is shown on the left with species silhouettes. Two primate species (baboon and green monkey) are depicted placing blocks representing saliva-related genes at the points in evolution where these genes emerged. Imagine designed in BioRender.

September 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM Everybody can reply

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Development

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Cdh2 helps the segmentation clock keep time

This Research Highlight showcases the work from Xueqi Jia, Akihiro Isomura and Ryoichiro Kageyama:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Figure 3: dh2 protein exhibits a relatively stable gradient along the posterior to anterior axis in iPSM. (A) Scheme of the knock-in strategy for generating a Cdh2-mScarlet fusion protein reporter line. Created in BioRender by Jia, X. (2025). https://BioRender.com/f9n6ph3. This figure was sublicensed under CC BY 4.0 terms. (B) Representative snapshots of Achilles and mScarlet channels 6 h after starting live imaging (105-h post induction). Dashed squares indicate the ROIs for quantitative plot of intensity. A, anterior; P, posterior. Dashed line in the mScarlet channel is used for plotting intensity along the posterior-anterior axis. Scale bars: 100 μm. (C) Plots of the pHes7-Achilles intensity along time measured using the ROIs in B. The purple and green lines indicate the mean of intensities of Cdh2-mScarlet and pHes7-Achilles, respectively, from three ROIs, and the light pink and grey lines represent the intensity from each single ROI. (D) Spatial smoothed plots of intensity from pHes7-Achilles (green) and CDH2-mScarlet (purple) channels along the posterior-anterior axis.

September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM Everybody can reply

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ACR Journals

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Emulated target trial compared cyclosporine, IFNα-2a, & adalimumab in adults with Behçet disease uveitis. IFNα-2a was assoc. with reduced uveitis relapse compared with cyclosporine, while adalimumab showed stronger assoc. with reduced relapse than IFNα-2a

A&R
doi.org/10.1002/art....

#Medsky

Comparative Real-World Effectiveness of Immunomodulatory Therapies for Prevention of Uveitis Relapse in Behçet's Disease. Graphical abstract created with BioRender

September 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM Everybody can reply

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PLOS Biology

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Myeloid cells drive #neuroinflammation in #MultipleSclerosis by promoting immune activation in the #CentralNervousSystem. This study identifies SLAMF5 as a key myeloid receptor that regulates this process, showing that its blockade reduces disease progression @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Vb7xhx

Left: Representative samples from the cervical (a + b), thoracic (c + d), and sacral (e + f) spinal cord comparing the degree of inflammation and white matter damage in control (a, c, e) and cKO (b, d, f) mice. Arrowheads mark foci with lymphocytic-dominant infiltration. In some cases, the infiltrate is associated with white matter damage, seen as pallor at this magnification. Right: Suggested model, created using Biorender.

September 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Dr. Katie Mattaini

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Things that feel cool: Getting notifications that folks are using your Biorender template.

September 11, 2023 at 1:00 PM Everybody can reply

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ACR Journals

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High density lipoprotein (HDL) traffics microRNAs which blunt the anti-inflammatory effect of HDL in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

In Arthritis & Rheumatology
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The anti-inflammatory effect of high-density lipoprotein is blunted by delivery of altered microRNA cargo in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Figure created with BioRender

December 21, 2023 at 4:22 PM Everybody can reply

Rutgers iJOBS

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Great news for the Rutgers community! BioRender Premium is now available for faculty, staff, students, and affiliates. Learn more in our latest post! grad.rutgers.edu/news/ijobs-w...

#RutgersiJOBs #BioRender #PhDStudents #posters

April 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Zachary Murphy

@zacharyrmurphy.bsky.social

I lost my Biorender access since starting grad school, and it has been incredibly annoying

...but apparently the NIH launched a free, "any-use" repository of science/medical artwork called BioArt in November! It's been a great alternative so far if others are also annoyed
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Bioart

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January 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM Everybody can reply

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Isabel Reche

@isabel-reche.bsky.social

Photochemodenitrification_Animation: Short animation as video abstract for the article.
Citation: Ilustrations created in BioRender. Leon Palmero, E. (2025) biorender.com/i13e835, CC-BY 4.0. Voice by elevenlabs.io

March 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM Everybody can reply

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NFDI4Microbiota

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We are thrilled to celebrate the end of an incredible #year. 🥳 It was a joy to meet so many of you at various events – such as our annual conference – and form new collaborations 🤝 Let’s meet again in #2025 🙋 We wish you a #wonderful and #healthy #start into the #newyear 🎉 #NFDI #NFDIrocks

December 31, 2024 at 6:00 AM Everybody can reply

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PLOS Biology

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Multiple #myeloma often requires IRE1 to sustain malignant growth, but why? This study shows that IRE1 promotes #CellCycle progression via the transcription factor IRF4, paving the way for new therapeutic strategies @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43TnG0L

Hypothetical model for nonenzymatic IRE1 cell cycle regulation via IRF4. Schematic representation of IRE1 supporting IRF4 activity/expression, promoting E2F1 and CDC25A transcription, in turn driving CDK2 activity to enable unconstrained cell-cycle progression. Silencing of IRE1 increases IRF4 phosphorylation on Ser114 and Ser270, which attenuates IRF4’s self-sustaining transcriptional activity, depleting E2F1 and CDC25A and leading to cell-cycle arrest. Phosphoresidues annotated in red: inhibitory. Phosphoresidues annotated in green: activating. Created in BioRender.

April 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM Everybody can reply

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RRID Robot

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Authors published a paper in Biorxiv, they used Biorender in the study. Including #RRIDs will make this less ambiguous.

SciScore made a table with this resource, see “Automated Services” module (download as csv, xml or #jats) #methodsmatter #reproducibility

www.biorxiv.org

June 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D.

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💡 Just published ➡️ Findings from the World Endometriosis Research Foundation expert working group on #invitro models for #endometriosis research. 🧪

Check out the paper for:
🤔 A decision tree for choosing the best in vitro endometriosis model
🧐 An assessment of emerging organoid systems
😃 And more!

Figure 4 from the paper linked in the next tweet. “Existing in vitro technologies for endometriosis research. An overview of the range of desired applications, design principles to consider, and existing cell sources and modelling platforms that can be used to perform in vitro endometrial research. Cell sourcing from healthy or diseased tissues can be paired with design principles that mimic the in vivo environment pertinent to the research question at the appropriate scale and throughput. These design principles include the mechanics, dimensionality, cellular complexity, and throughput of systems to yield different modelling platforms for healthy or diseased endometrial in vitro models. Far left panel: AUB, abnormal uterine bleeding. Created in BioRender. Marr (2025).”

July 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw

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Schutzprotein FXR bremst aggressive Speiseröhrenkrebs-Entwicklung
Das gastroösophageale Adenokarzinom ist eine aggressive Form von Speiseröhrenkrebs, die vor allem in westlichen Ländern zunimmt. Risikofaktoren sind chronischer Reflux, Überg...
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Die Aktivierung von FXR bestimmt das Schicksal der Stammzellen im Ösophagus (spezialisiert oder entartet) und beeinflusst somit die Entstehung des gastroösophagealen Adenokarzinoms. - Copyright © Created in BioRender. Proano vasco, A. (2025) https://BioRender.com/azqbujs”

May 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM Everybody can reply

PLOS Biology

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Myeloid cells drive #neuroinflammation in #MultipleSclerosis by promoting immune activation in the #CentralNervousSystem. This study identifies SLAMF5 as a key myeloid receptor that regulates this process, showing that its blockade reduces disease progression @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Vb7xhx

September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM Everybody can reply

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