Mesoscopic Imaging Facility

AI model forecasts disease risk decades in advance | EMBL New AI model can estimate the long-term risk of over 1,000 diseases and forecast human health changes over a decade in advance.

Imagine a future where your medical history could help forecast what health conditions you might face.

Introducing a new AI model trained on anonymised medical records that estimates long-term risk for over 1,000 diseases over a decade in advance.

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What if you could get a glimpse of the future of your health, today?

Our scientists have developed a new generative AI model, trained using large-scale health records, that can estimate how human health may change over time.

Watch to find out more.

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Thank you @paveltomancak.bsky.social for a fantastic talk and discussion with predocs and postdoctoral fellows @embl.org @prbb.org

We are delighted to host @paveltomancak.bsky.social as our next Science By The Beach speaker from @mpi-cbg.de. Please join us @embl.org for an exciting talk and discussion.

📅 September 16
📍 @prbb.org

#evolution #development #imaging #TissueBiology

At the ELMI meeting, our poster – which received an award! – presented a high-resolution 3D imaging approach to study the gorgonian coral "Leptogorgia sarmentosa".

🐟 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Clear as glass, zebrafish embryos let you watch organs form in real time. A powerhouse for studying organogenesis and regeneration, they’re also champions of transgenic expression of fluorescent proteins 🌈 image from Gopi Shah 🧪 #ModelMonday #DevBio

What an amazing conference #ELMI2025 @embl.org!

An exciting meeting concluded with a poster prize for @montserrat-coll.bsky.social on 'Deep inside a gorgonian coral', project in collaboration with Teresa Madurell and team
@icmcsic.bsky.social

See you next year!

#LightSheet #TissueClearing

🧬 Poster #119 by Jim Swoger at #ELMI2025

“C3PO – Cell 3D Positioning by Optical encoding”

Discover this innovative 3D spatialomics method from the @jamesasharpe.bsky.social lab @embl.org Barcelona

#SpatialOmics #3DTranscriptomics #LightSheet

🪸 Poster #49 by @montserrat-coll.bsky.social

"Deep inside a gorgonian coral"

Explore a beautiful study on tissue clearing in complex marine corals, in collaboration with Teresa Madurell and team @icmcsic.bsky.social. A dive into nature's hidden structures!

#MarineBiology #TissueClearing

📢 We're excited to connect at #ELMI2025 @embl.org!

Catch our latest work on tissue clearing and spatial transcriptomics at posters #49 and #119 tomorrow evening.
Come chat with our imaging scientist @montserrat-coll.bsky.social and facility head Jim Swoger to learn more.

#Microscopy #3DImaging

📣 This fall, #IBE_Barcelona hosts the @embo.org #Workshop "Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life"🧬🦠✨#UnravellingEvolution

📆 9-11 October 2025
📍 @prbb.org 
⌛ Abstract submission: 1st June

👉https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-multicellularity

We share beautifully imaged neurofilaments in a mouse embryo acquired with a combination of two optical imaging techniques #Lightsheet and #OPT 💡🔬

Acquired by Jim Swoger @crg.eu @embl.org on a custom built OPTiSPIM setup, sample provided by Glenda Comai @institutpasteur.bsky.social

#lightday2025

Thank you! This dataset is not publicly available yet but we are working on it.

A near newborn mouse embryo >1.5 cm long!

Staining and transparency must be consistent throughout the sample. Montserrat Coll from our facility did all the magic 🪄 of decalcification, pigment reduction, permeabilization and #3Dimaging. Data acquired on LCS SPIM from @brukercorporation.bsky.social

We’re excited to share the amazing science our microscopes are enabling🔬

From #3Dimaging technologies to developmental biology, cancer research, spatial-omics and more!🧬🧠

Follow us for cutting-edge discoveries at @embl.org @prbb.org and discover how #mesoscopic imaging can support your research

We’re excited to be at the “Human iPSC and Organoids at the Core of Biomedicine” symposium at CosmoCaixa Barcelona today!
If you’re interested in live and deep organoid imaging, connect with Gopi Shah from EMBL Barcelona @prbb.org @embl.org
Looking forward to great talks and discussions!

Like previous years, we hosted students from the class of Biomedical sciences @ub.edu for a tour of our facility. Thank you for visiting us @embl.org @prbb.org.Sharing a glimpse of the day here!

Mesoscopic Imaging Facility @embl.org @prbb.org is now on Bluesky Social!

We offer state-of-the-art imaging, image processing and analysis services to research labs, companies and hospitals in Barcelona and beyond. Follow us to know more about the technologies and applications we work with.