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Biomedical Picture of the Day: daily intriguing images from global research. IMAGE/RESEARCH EXPLANATIONS AND LINKS TO THE PAPER on bpod.org.uk

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Liver lobule zone molecular characteristics dictate susceptibility to WNT-driven liver cancer

📷 Alexander Raven et al @cruk-si.bsky.social in @nature.com

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November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Head to Mosquitos: Cell atlas reveals sex differences in mosquitos – potentially applicable for disease spread management

📷 @oliviagoldman.net, AlexandraDefoe et al @rockefeller.edu
in @cellpress.bsky.social

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November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Nanoparticles mimicking a cell's own nucleosome DNA-packaging system developed in mice to deliver gene therapy for fibrotic lung disease

📹 Nan Kong & Dinghao Chen et al Westlake University, China
in @science.org Advances

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November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Fungi filaments have a growing tip & reabsorption behind: the protein actin drives this recycling

Made with @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy
📷 by Marisa Delgado & Mario Pinar et al @cib-csic.bsky.social in @plos.org Genetics

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November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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3D panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography (3DPanoPact) sees deep into living tissues without unwanted light scattering or limited field of view

📹Xuanhao Wang et al, Research Center for Computing Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou in
@natcomms.nature.com

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November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Silencing RAB23 gene associated with Carpenter syndrome confirms this genetic disorder as a ciliopathy

📷Wan Ying Leong & Catherine Hong Huan Hor et al, Hong Kong Baptist University & Duke-NUS Medical School in
@plos.org Genetics

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November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Liver Little: Vascularisation developing in new-born mouse liver lobules contributes to determining the size of the organ at adulthood

📹 D. Berfin Azizoglu et al @hhmi.org @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com

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November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Silent Treatment: Anti-virulence therapeutic peptide EntV can spare healthy microbes when limiting harmful fungal biofilms

📷 Giuseppe Buda De Cesare et al University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston in @plos.org Pathogens

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November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Gut organ culture system as model to study microbial & neuronal signals finds these signals integrate to influence gut immunity & gut lining barrier defence

📷 Gitali Naim, Hadar Romano-Zadaka & Sivan Amidror et al
@goodmanfaculty.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com
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November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Nuclei numbers increase in proportion with volume as these fungal hyphae grow – the key to their protein-producing prowess?

📹 Ayaka Itani et al University of Tsukuba, Japan in @elife.bsky.social

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November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Thanks for choosing my picture from our @jem.org paper for a biomedical picture of the day @bpodaily.bsky.social! It's always great to show the importance of the "other vessels"- the beautiful lymphatic system!
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The Other Vessels: Subsets of lymphatic vessel lining & valve cells in the skin revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing & 3D imaging

📷 Aline Bauer et al, @ethz.ch in @jem.org

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November 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Membrane thickness variation among organelles measured via cryo-ET – a means to analyse how it affects their function

📹 @deglushk.bsky.social, Stefanie Böhm @becklab.bsky.social Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in @jcb.org

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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Hear Hair: Pcdh15 vital for correct development of the inner ear's sound-detecting hair cells - potential in restorative gene therapy

📷 @ramankaushik.bsky.social et al @tifr.res.in in @plos.org Genetics

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November 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The Other Vessels: Subsets of lymphatic vessel lining & valve cells in the skin revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing & 3D imaging

📷 Aline Bauer et al, @ethz.ch in @jem.org

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November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Catching the Tube: CRISPR interference in organoids used to identify genes that drive neural tube closure during embryo development

📷 Roya E Huang & Giridhar M Anand et al @harvard.edu in @elife.bsky.social

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November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Transcriptome maturation just before multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors divide confers their distinct fates – sea squirt study reveals

📷 Yelena Y Bernadskaya, Ariel Kuan, Andreas Tjärnberg, Wei Wang et al @nyu.edu in @embojournal.org
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November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Alzheimer’s-associated toxic plaque-forming protein amyloid β is transferred between brain cells via nanotubes

📷 Minhyeok Chang et al @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social
research in @science.org

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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Mouse model with synthetic α-synuclein based on patients' fibrils mimics multiple-system atrophy & reveals structure & behaviour of fibrillar α-syn

📹 Domenic Burger, Marianna Kashyrina & Lukas van den Heuvel et al, EPFL & @univbordeaux.bsky.social in @nature.com

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November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Role of signalling pathway identified in fly hearing organ
=> possible sensorineural hearing loss treatments

📷 Natalie Ortiz-Vega, Chong Li, & Rong Grace Zhai. Memoona Ramzan et al, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Flower Power: Cells induced by molybdenum disulphide nanoflowers to increase production of mitochondria to transfer to & repair damaged cells

📹 John Soukar et al @tamu.bsky.social in @pnas.org

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November 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Cyst-like structures in thymus thought to be relics from development are networks of epithelial cells possibly involved in T-cell selection & development

📹 Stepan Vodopyanov et al @einsteinmededu.bsky.social in
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Blood Suppl-eye: Loss of TGF-β in blood vessel endothelial cells as a model of retinal & neurological diseases

📷 Yanshu Wang et al @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social
in @elife.bsky.social

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November 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Study in zebrafish reveals clot factor-cleaving enzyme ADAMTS13 is also key in vascular development & tissue homeostasis

📷 Samuele Sartori & Ignacio Babiloni Chust et al
CIBIO University ofTrento, Italy in @biologyopen.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Human patient's liver cell organoid cultured with their T cells makes life-mimicking study & drug screen model

📷 Fadoua El Abdellaoui Soussi et al @cincyresearch.bsky.social in Advanced Science
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November 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Death Mask: Microglia – myeloid cells of the nervous system – can be positive for the nerve cell death marker annexin-V

📷 Kiyoharu J. Miyagishima & Francisco M. Nadal-Nicolás, et al
National Eye Institute, NIH in Neural Regeneration Research

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November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM