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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 Supported by @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social & @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Two types of glial cells cooperate to prune brain connections in response to particular experiences as brain wiring takes shape
📷 Vanessa Kay Miller & Kendal Broadie @vanderbilt.edu in
@plosbiology.org
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@antdlewis.bsky.social
Hepatitis D virus hitches a ride into host cells inside a helper virus such as hep B acting as a Trojan horse
📹 @viroscope.bsky.social et al @karimaj.bsky.social lab @umontpellier.bsky.social in @cellpress.bsky.social
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Proteins that help the diarrhoea-causing cryptosporidium parasite into host cells identified => potential treatment targets
📷 Fuxian Yang et al South China Agricultural University in
@plos.org Pathogens
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@antdlewis.bsky.social
Fruit fly study finds Toll receptors mediate tissue detection of and response to abnormal cells – tissue intrinsic surveillance
📷 Anna Frey et al @uni-freiburg.de in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
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A human organoid for modeling spinal cord injury.
Injury & treatment of lab-grown human spinal cord organoids speeds up repair research into traumas of the nervous system
📸 Nozomu Takata et al Stupp lab Northwestern University in
@natbiomedeng.nature.com
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@rooph.bsky.social
comBO - a model of blood cell production lab-grown from stem cells faithfully mimics bone marrow for analysing blood cells in health & diseases like leukaemia & myeloma
📷 @yuqi-shen.bsky.social et al MRC MHU @imm.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk in @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social
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Liver-on-a-chip mimics insulin resistance in disease – fatty acids perturb insulin’s normal role of encouraging liver to soak up glucose
📷 Erin N. Tevonian & Ellen L. Kan et al @mit.edu @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com
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John Ankers
Wrap Map: Mouse life-time brain-wide map of myelin-producing cells and myelin density in health and disease
📹 Yu Kang T. Xu, Abigail Bush & Ephraim Musheyev et al Bergles Lab @jhu.edu in @cellpress.bsky.social
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Interaction between candida fungus & some strains of bacterium E.faecalis makes infections more damaging
📷 Mario Kapitan et al Ilse D. Jacobsen Lab, @leibniz-hki.de in
@pnas.org
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@rooph.bsky.social
Transfer of mitochondria from glia to adjacent sensory neurons in dorsal root ganglia – protects against nerve degeneration & pain
📷 Jing Xu et al @dukehealth.bsky.social @dukemedschool.bsky.social in @nature.com
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Evolving towards antibiotic resistance bacteria pass DNA sequences between each other via protrusions called pili which also enhance biofilm formation
📷 James B. Winans et al Nadell lab, @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social
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@rooph.bsky.social
Human liver tissue with & without fibrosis reconstructed at cell level in 3D - insights for understanding liver disease & how to treat it
📹 Wesley B. Fabyan & Chelsea L. Fortin et al @kellystevens.bsky.social lab University of Washington
in @science.org Advances
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Fruit fly study finds enzymes Hip14 & Patsas limit lysosome formation & fusion so protecting against Huntington's disease-like symptoms
📷 Győző Szenci et al, Eötvös Loránd University, in
@plos.org Genetics
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@antdlewis.bsky.social
Mechanisms to overcome instability in early embryo cell division differ in zebrafish & fruit flies: species-specific mechanisms both orchestrated by cytoskeletal microtubules
📹 Melissa Rinaldin et al, @brugueslab.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social in @nature.com
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NEK7 protein–'traffic warden' in liver cells keeping energy flowing in the right direction, warding off fibrosis-causing oxidation
📷 Zhenzhen Sun & Le Sun et al Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, in @natcomms.nature.com
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Epidermal rete ridges correlate with less hairy skin but what's the relationship? This study details how rete ridges aren't directly coupled to hair development
@leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy
📷 Sean M. Thompson et al @pullman.wsu.edu in
@nature.com
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Nanofilm 'imprint' analysed by mass spec – a new approach for detailed 'imaging' of chemicals and biomarkers
📷 Yizhu Xu & Xinzhou Wu et al, South China Agricultural University in @science.org Advances
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John Ankers
Dendritic cells are guided from tissue into lymph vessels for carriage to the lymph nodes by a gradient of chemokine C–C motif ligand 21
📷 Victor Collado-Diaz, Maria-Nefeli Christakopoulou & Philipp Schineis et al, @halinlab.bsky.social @ethz.ch in @jcb.org
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Axolotl limb regeneration study reveals how the process is driven by cells with different positional identities
📷 Sakiya Yamamoto et al Okayama University in
@elife.bsky.social
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John Ankers
Pore Law: Staph A's alpha hemolysin toxin punches holes in cell membranes – here the pore formation process is analysed in red cells
📹 Arnab Chatterjee et al, Indian Institute of Science
@jcb.org
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Effects of radiation on gene activities analysed using single-cell RNA sequencing in wings of developing fruit flies
📷 Joyner Cruz et al @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social in
@elife.bsky.social
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John Ankers
Cytoskeletal protein spectrin coordinates the shape & fate of skin's epidermal cells
📷 Arad Soffer & Aishwarya Bhosale et al @unicologne.bsky.social & @telavivuni.bsky.social in
@jcb.org
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Altair-LSFM – new high-resolution, open-source, sample-scanning approach to light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for sub-cellular imaging
📹 @john-haug.bsky.social et al @kevin-dean.bsky.social lab
UT Southwestern Medical Center in @elife.bsky.social
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John Ankers
Secondary vascular field cells underlie zebrafish blood supply – genes Jam2 & Hand2 key for emergence of organ-specific vascular progenitors
📷 Martyna Griciunaite, @jmartinkus.bsky.social & Sanjeeva Metikala et al @ssumanas.bsky.social @usf.edu in
@elife.bsky.social
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Sensory neurons play a key role in type 2 immunity – the response to parasites and in allergy
📷 re paper by Wen Zhang & Elizabeth R. Emanuel et al Artis Lab @weillcornell.bsky.social published in @nature.com
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Pulling a Face: Zebrafish face development study identifies genetic & epigenetic regulatory mechanisms distinguishing tendons & ligaments
📷 Ryan R. Roberts et al, @crumplab.bsky.social @keck.usc.edu in @dev-journal.bsky.social
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Genome-wide screen using CRISPR identifies 100s of genes important for neuronal development
📷 Galya Monderer-Rothkoff re paper A Amelan, S Collins, N Damseh et al bsky.app/profile/sagi...
& Binnaz Yalcin lab in @natneuro.nature.com
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@rooph.bsky.social
The dynamics of the cells, molecules & anatomy involved in blood cell precursor production in the early liver
📹 Anjali Vijaykumar & Patrick M. Helbling et al University of Zurich in @cp-devcell.bsky.social
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Organoids reveal how easily Ebola and Marburg viruses infect the gut & cause severe diarrhoea
📷 Elizabeth Y. Flores et al @bumedicine.bsky.social in
@plos.org Pathogens
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