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Have you ever thought the human #gut could look this beautiful?
This is adult human colon tissue stained with multiple markers, revealing its intricate structure 🧪
Beauty of Our Gut by Marta Jagielowicz
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Have you ever thought the human #gut could look this beautiful?
This is adult human colon tissue stained with multiple markers, revealing its intricate structure 🧪
Beauty of Our Gut by Marta Jagielowicz
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This week we’re featuring Hans Ng, a postdoctoral researcher in the Anne Goriely Lab at the #MRCWIMM.
@sciencehans.bsky.social @agoriely.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk
This week we’re featuring Hans Ng, a postdoctoral researcher in the Anne Goriely Lab at the #MRCWIMM.
@sciencehans.bsky.social @agoriely.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk
So… how does #MassCytometry actually work? 🤔
1. Cells are stained with antibodies tagged to rare heavy metals
2. Each cell is vaporised and ionised in a plasma
3. Ions are separated by their mass and detected in a time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer
So… how does #MassCytometry actually work? 🤔
1. Cells are stained with antibodies tagged to rare heavy metals
2. Each cell is vaporised and ionised in a plasma
3. Ions are separated by their mass and detected in a time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer
A sea glass at sunset?
Nope, it's an epoxy model of the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor based on the resting state structure (PDB: 9GU0), photographed on Mordialloc Beach 🧪
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor on the Beach by Anna Li
@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
A sea glass at sunset?
Nope, it's an epoxy model of the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor based on the resting state structure (PDB: 9GU0), photographed on Mordialloc Beach 🧪
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor on the Beach by Anna Li
@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This week we’re introducing Benjamin McMaster, a DPhil student at Hashem Koohy's Group here at the #MRCWIMM.
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @benjamin-mcmaster.bsky.social
This week we’re introducing Benjamin McMaster, a DPhil student at Hashem Koohy's Group here at the #MRCWIMM.
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @benjamin-mcmaster.bsky.social
Here we go!
Ever wondered how scientists can measure dozens of proteins on a single cell? #MassCytometry makes this possible!
Here we go!
Ever wondered how scientists can measure dozens of proteins on a single cell? #MassCytometry makes this possible!
Fresh into the new year and straight into #WorldIntrovertDay.
To our colleagues at the #MRCWIMM who may not love our cameras but still tolerate us kindly, we see you and we appreciate you.
And as promised, we will not be tagging our colleague in this post. 💙🧪
#CameraShy
Fresh into the new year and straight into #WorldIntrovertDay.
To our colleagues at the #MRCWIMM who may not love our cameras but still tolerate us kindly, we see you and we appreciate you.
And as promised, we will not be tagging our colleague in this post. 💙🧪
#CameraShy
From molecules to twinkling light,
the WIMM is glowing bright tonight.
Happy holidays to all — we’re now signing out,
back on 2 January, refreshed throughout.
From molecules to twinkling light,
the WIMM is glowing bright tonight.
Happy holidays to all — we’re now signing out,
back on 2 January, refreshed throughout.
#WIMMHighlights #WIMMCommunity #LEAFOxForum
@ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
#WIMMHighlights #WIMMCommunity #LEAFOxForum
@ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Looks like a distant planet in deep space.
It is actually the edge of a cell #nucleus expanded in gel to reveal #chromatin in blue and sites of #DNA replication in red.
The Nuclear Sponge by George Lister
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Looks like a distant planet in deep space.
It is actually the edge of a cell #nucleus expanded in gel to reveal #chromatin in blue and sites of #DNA replication in red.
The Nuclear Sponge by George Lister
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This week we’re introducing Anna Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the Yin Dong Lab at the #MRCWIMM.
@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
#WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #IonChannels #Neuroscience
Photo credit: Susan Maxwell
This week we’re introducing Anna Li, a postdoctoral researcher in the Yin Dong Lab at the #MRCWIMM.
@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
#WIMMSpotlight #WIMMCommunity #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #IonChannels #Neuroscience
Photo credit: Susan Maxwell
This swirling scene shows fibrotic and non-fibrotic granuloma in sarcoidosis lung.
Each colour marks a cell type, revealing fibroblasts, pro fibrotic macrophages, CD four T cells and alveolar epithelium.
#SciComm @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This swirling scene shows fibrotic and non-fibrotic granuloma in sarcoidosis lung.
Each colour marks a cell type, revealing fibroblasts, pro fibrotic macrophages, CD four T cells and alveolar epithelium.
#SciComm @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This week we’re featuring Naeema Mehmood, a #DPhil student in the De Bruijn Group at the MRC WIMM.
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This week we’re featuring Naeema Mehmood, a #DPhil student in the De Bruijn Group at the MRC WIMM.
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
May look like a dino egg swallowed a disco ball.
But it's actually an intestinal #organoid glowing in cyan, magenta and yellow to show #nuclei, E cadherin and Zonula Occludens one.
Disco Intestinal Organoid by Dimitrios Ioannidis
#SciArt runner up, 2025 #WIMMImageCompetition.
#SciComm
May look like a dino egg swallowed a disco ball.
But it's actually an intestinal #organoid glowing in cyan, magenta and yellow to show #nuclei, E cadherin and Zonula Occludens one.
Disco Intestinal Organoid by Dimitrios Ioannidis
#SciArt runner up, 2025 #WIMMImageCompetition.
#SciComm
This week’s spotlight features Kexin Xu, a DPhil student in the Agne Antanaviciute Group at the MRC WIMM. Kexin is a biologist who taught herself machine learning and deep learning.
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This week’s spotlight features Kexin Xu, a DPhil student in the Agne Antanaviciute Group at the MRC WIMM. Kexin is a biologist who taught herself machine learning and deep learning.
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
These #megakaryocytes show six strange shapes as they respond to Galectin one. Their actin cytoskeleton is stained to reveal this variety.
Six of a Kind by Natalie Jooss
Honourable Mention, 2025 WIMM Image Competition.
#SciComm @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
These #megakaryocytes show six strange shapes as they respond to Galectin one. Their actin cytoskeleton is stained to reveal this variety.
Six of a Kind by Natalie Jooss
Honourable Mention, 2025 WIMM Image Competition.
#SciComm @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
This week’s spotlight features Pei Rong Toh, a DPhil student in the Hal Drakesmith Group at the #MRCWIMM
@drakesmith-lab.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk
This week’s spotlight features Pei Rong Toh, a DPhil student in the Hal Drakesmith Group at the #MRCWIMM
@drakesmith-lab.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk
These shapes look like tiny sea creatures but they are healthy #platelets with bright pockets of #DNA in red. This image won the Eureka category of the 2025 WIMM Image Contest. Captured with a ZEISS LSM980 inverted confocal microscope with Airyscan detection.
#Microscopy #SciArt
These shapes look like tiny sea creatures but they are healthy #platelets with bright pockets of #DNA in red. This image won the Eureka category of the 2025 WIMM Image Contest. Captured with a ZEISS LSM980 inverted confocal microscope with Airyscan detection.
#Microscopy #SciArt
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
Not a T.rex but a pretentious gut tissue!
Spatial transcriptomics mapped 5,100 genes at subcellular resolution.
Captured by @vywien-lai.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 WIMM Image Competition ( #SciArt).
Proof that science doesn’t just uncover life’s mysteries — it gives you dinosaurs 🦕
Not a T.rex but a pretentious gut tissue!
Spatial transcriptomics mapped 5,100 genes at subcellular resolution.
Captured by @vywien-lai.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 WIMM Image Competition ( #SciArt).
Proof that science doesn’t just uncover life’s mysteries — it gives you dinosaurs 🦕
This week, we’re featuring Sumana Sharma, one of our newest Group Leaders here at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (MRC WIMM).
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
#WIMMCommunity #Immunology #TCells #SystemsBiology #CRISPR #MRCWIMM
This week, we’re featuring Sumana Sharma, one of our newest Group Leaders here at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (MRC WIMM).
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
#WIMMCommunity #Immunology #TCells #SystemsBiology #CRISPR #MRCWIMM
This week, we’d like to give a special shout-out to Dr Abdullah Khan who recently started his own research group after being awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award! 🎉
@abattacks.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
This week, we’d like to give a special shout-out to Dr Abdullah Khan who recently started his own research group after being awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award! 🎉
@abattacks.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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