Prakash Lab at Stanford

Cephla is at #SfN2025 through Wednesday 11/19. Come to our booth at 3217 to check out our Squid+ spinning confocal and fluidics system + learn how we help accelerate developing/disseminating/adopting new methods and scale data production capacities!
#HCS #LiveCell #SpatialOmics #ExpansionMicroscopy

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yeah! 🎃

Now that is a great idea - when my kids were young enough to trick or treat I would have been delighted if they had come home with a Foldscope.

Success. Nearly 259 Foldscope deployed in hands of unsuspecting candy crazy kids. Halloween is always more colorful with the microscopes - specially in a few weeks they could look at the micro-fauna of the teeth with so much sugar consumption.

Happy Halloween! Are you celebrating by searching for ghosts and spiders with your #Foldscope?

Meet Paul Maddox Paul Maddox is a world-renowned cancer researcher, two-time entrepreneur, and native son of Western North Carolina–and now, a candidate for U.S. Congress. ....

🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/

💥 🏛️ 🧪 Paul Maddox for US House of Representatives from NC

An intimate conversation about what drives me every day in “sharing experience” of science by getting tools of science in hands of kids everywhere.

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The Microscopists | Manu Prakash (Stanford University) We're thrilled to bring you this episode of The Microscopists with an absolute force in accessible science and microscopy innovation—Manu Prakash of Stanford University.Manu shares the origin of th...

Manu Prakesh ($1 #foldscope fame) guest stars on #TheMicroscopists. Quite incredible drive & desire for making science hands-on & accessible. He also talks about his passion for fieldwork, & explains why he has barnacles growing in his bathroom!
Stream bit.ly/microscopist...
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That’s amazing; thank you for it! I acquired a Foldscope last year and I love everything about this effort. If there‘s a way to support your Halloween (or other) Foldscope giving, point the way please!

(Also: I’ll be at Stanford early December: I hope the stars align so I can meet you).

Love that you give the awesome Foldscope 'with the candy on Halloween'🍬🍭- best of both world, Manu! Hopefully not to see the shifting microbiome in their mouths pre and post sugar... scary!!

Donate We are a social-mission-driven company and many of our products are sold at near or at cost to ensure accessibility to all. We provide higher priced versions of our products to help support our effort...

Simplest thing to do is donation link: foldscope.com/pages/donate

And mention Halloween.

Science needs to be part of our day to traditions. For many years - I have continued to give Foldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social with the candy on Halloween. Try it out and surprise the kids with the capacity to see and discover real #microMonsters crawling on our planet. 🎃👻

#FoldscopeHalloween

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

Math professor Terence Tao and neuroscientist Vidya Saravanapandian told PBS Newshour's Stephanie Sy that US's global leadership in science hangs in the balance. 🧪

story by me! 🧪 (and guest starring @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social )

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“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

there is a special lounge in pape heaven reserved for authors who take the time to aggregate and plot out how species vary across a physical variable

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

Octopi 2.0: Open and Scalable Microscopy Platform for AI-powered Diagnostic Applications Access to quantitative, robust, and affordable diagnostic tools is essential to address the global burden of infectious diseases. While manual microscopy remains a cornerstone of diagnostic workflows ...

Please consider supporting malaria projects. After the funding collapse in global health - it has become incredibly hard to deliver these tools to the masses. If you believe in power of “AI for good” - please reach out!

Detailed paper here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Foldscope Paper Microscopes | Portable Microscopes Foldscope makes science more accessible. Our foldable paper microscopes are low-cost devices that bring the wonders of the microscopic world to all.

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From the abstract, they define “a unique playground merging top-down cellular physiology and classical branching morphogenesis with bottom-up non-equilibrium mineralization processes at the interface of living and non-living matter”
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Congrats @laurentformery.bsky.social

Often people ask why we chose to work on a certain problems and a simple answer for us in this case - it’s beautiful. If you want to learn the magic of building crystalline « gems » inside the body - see our latest paper at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
🧪 #Scicomm #Nature
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Ice Diatoms Glide at Record-Low Temperatures - Eos New observations reveal how microscopic organisms move through polar ice and illustrate how they may have evolved to thrive in extreme environments.

Life knows how to keep going - even if it’s freezing -15 degrees C 🥶 outside. AGU just covered our discovery of ultra resistant ice diatoms gliding into a world record! 🧪🔬Enjoy the story here:

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Ice Diatoms Glide at Record-Low Temperatures - Eos New observations reveal how microscopic organisms move through polar ice and illustrate how they may have evolved to thrive in extreme environments.

Microscopic diatoms are “the microbial backbone of the entire ecosystem,” says @prakashlab.bsky.social. All Arctic species, including the smallest ones, are threatened by climate change. 🧪🦠

““Ice is an incredible porous architecture of highways,” Prakash explained. “Light comes from the top in the ice column, and nutrients come from the bottom. There is an optimal location that [a diatom] might want to be, and that can only be possible with motility.”“

“Scientists used to think that sea ice was simply an inactive barrier on the ocean surface, but discoveries like these reveal that sea ice is a rich habitat full of biological diversity and innovation,”

#ProtistsOnSky (XS Torvill and Dean)