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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 1h

Winning Stroke: Why exercise enhances recovery following a stroke - IL10 from T reg cells mobilised by exercise reduces neuronal hyperexcitability

📷 A. Schmidt-Pogoda et al University of Münster in
@natcomms.nature.com

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 1d

Actin Big: A new probe HAK-actin that reveals actin fibres in high definition with expansion microscopy

📷 Olivier Mercey & Luc Reymond et al, University of Geneva
in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

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@antdlewis.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 1d

How astrocyte leaflets (which envelop neuron-neuron synapses) integrate signals from multiple synapses

📹 @bleuncoaist.bsky.social, Ines Hristovska, Nicolas Liaudet et al Grenoble Institut Neurosciences; University of Lausanne in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 3d

Axe-a-lotl: The molecular basis of how positional memory – where cells are meant to be through life – is maintained

📷 L. Otsuki et al @viennabiocenter.bsky.social in @nature.com

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with
John Ankers

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 3d

Left-handed DNA with conventional right-handed as probes boosts multiplex labelling
📷 @eduardunterauer.bsky.social @evaschentarra.bsky.social Isabelle Pachmayr & @taishatashrin.bsky.social et al
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @mpibiochem.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 5d

TSPO protein is a pre-cognitive-decline marker in Alzheimer's disease & abundant in plaque-associated microglia

📷 Daniel A. Martinez-Perez et al @fiu.bsky.social
in Acta Neuropathologica @springernature.com

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@rooph.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 6d

High-plex cyclic immunofluorescence imaging in tumours reveals details of the state of cells & their membranes, & their interactions

📷 Clarence Yapp & Ajit J. Nirmal et al, @harvard.edu in @natmethods.nature.com

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 6d

Previously unknown contacts between mitochondria identified using new approach with AI & volumetric electron microscopy

📹 Benjamin S. Padman, Runa S.J. Lindblom & @lazaroulab.bsky.social, @monashuniversity.bsky.social @jcb.org

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 7d

Different extracellular matrix components regulate melanocyte function & behaviour – insights for eg.melanoma therapeutic strategies

📷 @caroleluthold.bsky.social et al @sandraiden.bsky.social lab, @uni-saarland.de in @emboreports.org

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 7d

Inherited Stress: Mechanism uncovered in mice reveals how maternal stress in pregnancy affects offspring's neurobiology

📷 Nicole Politowska. Research authorship Anika Nabila et al
@weillcornell.bsky.social research in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 7d

Virtual thymus demonstrates changes to the niche composition can provoke proliferation akin to T-cell leukaemia

📹 @tisrenk.bsky.social , Advaita M Dick & Baubak Bajoghli
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
in @elife.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 7d

HIV escapes immune attack by reducing killer T-cell granzyme levels

📷 Andrea O. Papadopoulos & Leonard Mvaya et al @ahri-news.bsky.social, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Research
in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 7d

Cell types of the adult mouse liver mapped by analysing cell type-specific molecular 'signatures', tied to anatomical location

📷 Riikka Pietilä et al @uu.se in @emboreports.org

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 7d

Cells of the prostate that bind androgens disclosed in a new mouse model – insight into both normal & cancer development

📷 Yao Mawulikplimi Adzavon et al @einsteinmededu.bsky.social in @plos.org PLOS Genetics

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 7d

Evidence for BLTP3A lipid transporter in the repair of lysosomes

📷 Michael G Hanna et al @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social in @embojournal.org

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 8d

Understanding how the left-right organiser – a structure that only exists transiently in the early embryo – begins

📷 Yan Wu & Yiling Lan et al @lovelessradio.bsky.social lab
@syracuseu.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 9d

Another HIV immune surveillance avoidance strategy uncovered - HIV's Nef & Vpu impede CD4 T cells' CD96 trafficking & render it susceptible to degradation

📷 Sandra Dehn & Rabea Burkhard et al University Hospital Tübingen, in @science.org Science Advances

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 9d

Thinking Alike: Comparison of means to track neurons in brain's stress/panic centre & a toolkit to improve reproducibility

📷 Chantal Wissing & Lena S. Eschholz et al, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, in @plosbiology.org

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@antdlewis.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 9d

Lipid transporter BLTP2 recruitment to ER-plasma membrane contacts controls membrane dynamics

📷 @anbangdai.bsky.social et al @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social
in @jcb.org

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 9d

In the Pits: Key role for CCD32 in clathrin-coated pit assembly and function

📷 Ziyan Yang et al, University of South China;
@czbiohub.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 9d

A bioprinted, high-throughput trophoblast organoid model that reproducibly mimics the placental microenvironment

📹 @clairerich.bsky.social et al
University of Technology Sydney in @natcomms.nature.com

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Masha Prager-Khoutorsky @mashapk.bsky.social · 20d

This beautiful video showing a 3D reconstruction of a “hungry” microglia was generated by Celeste Laporte, a brilliant PhD student in the lab and a co-author on the paper: www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Microglia regulate neuronal activity via structural remodeling of astrocytes

Gu et al. showed that in rats fed a high-salt diet, reactive microglia accumulate around vasopressin-secreting neurons, phagocytosing astrocytic elements and pruning astrocytes. This causes glutamate ...

www.cell.com

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 21d

Targeting the brain's vasopressin neurons could be a novel treatment for high blood pressure

📹 Ning Gu et al @mashapk.bsky.social lab @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social in @cp-neuron.bsky.social

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@rooph.bsky.social

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 22d

Not pomegranates but lupus-affected kidney glomeruli – importance of PLD4 deficiency in human disease revealed & a target for treatment

📷 Qintao Wang, Honghao Zhu, Xiangwei Sun, Changming Zhang & Shuangyue Ma et al Zhejiang University China in @nature.com

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 23d

Stunning results with minimal sample disruption using super resolution structured illumination microscopy (SIM)

📷 created @ the Micron imaging facility @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social
by Leopold Czermak, Madeleine Trussell & River Wang
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/9/18 with @antdlewis.bsky.social

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