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Brian English @sciencethecat.bsky.social · 11h

Just heard him speak at Janelia just now. Wonderful talk!

Ewerslab @ewerslab.bsky.social · 7d

Jay Groves starts off the last day of #BiomembraneDays2025 with a deep dive into signaling at the membrane.

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Brian English @sciencethecat.bsky.social · 4d

#miasanfamily♥️

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

(Part 1) Hear from @hhmi_news Investigator David Stern about his research program and what he's uncovering in the lab.

Stern will join the Institute in February 2026, bringing his lab and HHMI appointment to Kansas City. @hhmi.org

Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

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Doudna Lab @doudna-lab.bsky.social · 6d

"Her work made it impossible to separate what we learn from our obligation to protect it. Generations of researchers have tried to follow that example." - Jennifer Doudna (2/2)

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Alfred Millett-Sikking @amsikking.bsky.social · 10d

The culmination of many years work. One of the most advanced light-sheet microscopes in the world!

-> A large field of view Snouty light-sheet microscope, with any immersion remote refocus and real-time multi-angle projections!

For details see previous posts and here: github.com/amsikking/HT...

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Aaron and the Hoskins Lab at UW Madison @uwmadisonrna.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations Jie! @jiexiaolab.bsky.social

Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 14d

Jie Xiao to Receive 2026 Carolyn Cohen Innovation Award
www.biophysics.org/news-room/ji...

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Brian English @sciencethecat.bsky.social · 16d

Stunningly beautiful RNA movies, congratulations!

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John Ngo @johntngo.bsky.social · 16d

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20d

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg that vaccinations have been so successful that "there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers." #TAF25 bit.ly/46a5DUE

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 26d

Today’s work, aside from meetings.

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Prevedel Lab @prevedel-lab.bsky.social · 26d

@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops

EMBL is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Gre...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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Jake Cornwall-Scoones @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social · 29d

Beautiful work led by @oliveringe.bsky.social. It was great fun to be involved with this project.

See Ollie’s paper and thread 👇

Ollie Inge @oliveringe.bsky.social · 29d

1/7 Really happy to see my PhD work published in ✨Developmental Cell✨ today! We find human endoderm is specified by two developmental trajectories 🔀, and the choice between alternate routes is dictated by the combinatorial BMP4/Activin signalling. www.cell.com/developmenta...

Combinatorial BMP4 and activin direct the choice between alternate routes to endoderm in a stem cell model of human gastrulation

Inge et al. show that human endoderm originates from two converging developmental routes with distinct dynamics and efficiencies yet similar developmental potential. Combinatorial activin and BMP4 sig...

www.cell.com

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Virginia M. S. Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks Misha for the shout-out!
It has been a truly mind-opening journey. WHOLISTIC is one step towards whole-organism neuroscience and a true physiological observatory - with extensions on the way! I am continually amazed by what the data reveals - so much remains to be discovered and mined.

Misha Ahrens @mishaahrens.bsky.social · Sep 8

Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

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Peng Wu @pengwu.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is absolutely the most significant glycobiology paper so far this year. Increasing cell surface N-glycosylation makes viable allo CAR-T cells without deleting the endogenous TCR #glycotime

Glycan shielding enables TCR-sufficient allogeneic CAR-T therapy

SPPL3 deletion modifies glycosylation on primary T cells, reducing allogeneic immune responses without impairing tumor control by anti-CD19 allogeneic CAR-T cells. SPPL3-null, TCR-sufficient anti-CD19...

www.cell.com

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vaccines save lives, pass it on.

YoursINegritude @yoursinegritude.bsky.social · Aug 29

Vaccines save lives, pass it on.

Lt. Boohura @ltuhura.bsky.social · Aug 29

Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.

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Johannes Stein @jmstein.bsky.social · Jul 21

(1/n) A simple, ultrastable, and cost-effective oxygen-scavenging system for long-term DNA-PAINT imaging

Please check out our new study on the benefits of sodium sulfite as oxygen scavenging system for DNA-PAINT.
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#SuperResolution #DNAPAINT #SMLM #Microscopy

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Optics & Photonics News @optica-opn.org · Aug 22

A new 25-camera multifocus microscope can capture 3D volumes of living organisms at high speeds.

Using the microscope, the researchers were able to view a fruit-fly larva’s heart beating at about 2 Hz.

Read the OPN story: bit.ly/4muEQbx

#imaging #microscopy 💡⚛️🧪

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voigtvision.bsky.social @voigtvision.bsky.social · Aug 22

One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 26

Clever mug :-)

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday
www.nature.com/articles/nme...

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Jochen Wegner @wegner.io · Aug 14

Wim Wenders war bei Alles gesagt? Der bedeutendste deutsche Filmregisseur unserer Zeit wird heute, am 14. August 2025, 80 Jahre alt.

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mesoSPIM: Clear Images. Big samples. Open source. @mesospim.bsky.social · Aug 12

We’re excited to welcome @kevin-dean.bsky.social to the #mesoSPIM2025 Symposium! Explore his innovations in Multiscale Cleared-Tissue Axially Swept Light-Sheet Microscopy for imaging from organ to subcellular levels.
🗺️Oct 13–15 | Zurich & hybrid
Interested? Register now: t.uzh.ch/1Ss

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have some BIG NEWS to share today!

Today I begin my next adventure as

Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!

(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

ALT: a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

media.tenor.com

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