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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

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Gut organ culture system as model to study microbial & neuronal signals finds these signals integrate to influence gut immunity & gut lining barrier defence

📷 Gitali Naim, Hadar Romano-Zadaka & Sivan Amidror et al
@goodmanfaculty.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com
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November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Nuclei numbers increase in proportion with volume as these fungal hyphae grow – the key to their protein-producing prowess?

📹 Ayaka Itani et al University of Tsukuba, Japan in @elife.bsky.social

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November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Thanks for choosing my picture from our @jem.org paper for a biomedical picture of the day @bpodaily.bsky.social! It's always great to show the importance of the "other vessels"- the beautiful lymphatic system!
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The Other Vessels: Subsets of lymphatic vessel lining & valve cells in the skin revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing & 3D imaging

📷 Aline Bauer et al, @ethz.ch in @jem.org

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November 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Membrane thickness variation among organelles measured via cryo-ET – a means to analyse how it affects their function

📹 @deglushk.bsky.social, Stefanie Böhm @becklab.bsky.social Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in @jcb.org

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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Hear Hair: Pcdh15 vital for correct development of the inner ear's sound-detecting hair cells - potential in restorative gene therapy

📷 @ramankaushik.bsky.social et al @tifr.res.in in @plos.org Genetics

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November 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The Other Vessels: Subsets of lymphatic vessel lining & valve cells in the skin revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing & 3D imaging

📷 Aline Bauer et al, @ethz.ch in @jem.org

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November 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Catching the Tube: CRISPR interference in organoids used to identify genes that drive neural tube closure during embryo development

📷 Roya E Huang & Giridhar M Anand et al @harvard.edu in @elife.bsky.social

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November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Transcriptome maturation just before multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors divide confers their distinct fates – sea squirt study reveals

📷 Yelena Y Bernadskaya, Ariel Kuan, Andreas Tjärnberg, Wei Wang et al @nyu.edu in @embojournal.org
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November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Alzheimer’s-associated toxic plaque-forming protein amyloid β is transferred between brain cells via nanotubes

📷 Minhyeok Chang et al @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social
research in @science.org

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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Mouse model with synthetic α-synuclein based on patients' fibrils mimics multiple-system atrophy & reveals structure & behaviour of fibrillar α-syn

📹 Domenic Burger, Marianna Kashyrina & Lukas van den Heuvel et al, EPFL & @univbordeaux.bsky.social in @nature.com

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November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Role of signalling pathway identified in fly hearing organ
=> possible sensorineural hearing loss treatments

📷 Natalie Ortiz-Vega, Chong Li, & Rong Grace Zhai. Memoona Ramzan et al, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Flower Power: Cells induced by molybdenum disulphide nanoflowers to increase production of mitochondria to transfer to & repair damaged cells

📹 John Soukar et al @tamu.bsky.social in @pnas.org

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November 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Cyst-like structures in thymus thought to be relics from development are networks of epithelial cells possibly involved in T-cell selection & development

📹 Stepan Vodopyanov et al @einsteinmededu.bsky.social in
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Blood Suppl-eye: Loss of TGF-β in blood vessel endothelial cells as a model of retinal & neurological diseases

📷 Yanshu Wang et al @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social
in @elife.bsky.social

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November 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Study in zebrafish reveals clot factor-cleaving enzyme ADAMTS13 is also key in vascular development & tissue homeostasis

📷 Samuele Sartori & Ignacio Babiloni Chust et al
CIBIO University ofTrento, Italy in @biologyopen.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Human patient's liver cell organoid cultured with their T cells makes life-mimicking study & drug screen model

📷 Fadoua El Abdellaoui Soussi et al @cincyresearch.bsky.social in Advanced Science
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November 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Death Mask: Microglia – myeloid cells of the nervous system – can be positive for the nerve cell death marker annexin-V

📷 Kiyoharu J. Miyagishima & Francisco M. Nadal-Nicolás, et al
National Eye Institute, NIH in Neural Regeneration Research

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November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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How the hormone-producing ovarian follicle contributes to egg production

📷 Qi Yin and Allan C Spradling, @carnegiescience.bsky.social
@elife.bsky.social

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November 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Nanoprobe (here with pollen grains for scale) performs mitochondrial biopsies – advance for study & promise for transplants to replace faulty mitochondria

📷 Yanmei Ma & Weikang Huand et al, Southern University of Science and Technology, China in @science.org Advances
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November 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Sleepyhead: How an inflammatory response causes daytime sleep via signal from gut to brain

📷 Alina Malita et al Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen in @elife.bsky.social

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November 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Coupling of vascular & nervous activity seen by new multimodal microscopy of neuron Ca2+, haemoglobin & blood flow velocity in awake mice

📹 Wei Qin, Tingting Li & Linyang Li et al Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen in @natcomms.nature.com

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October 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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On Neurite Path: Algorithm that automatically reconstructs images of far-reaching axon projections from a single neuron in the mouse brain

📹 Lin Cai et al Huazhong University of Science and Technology
in @elife.bsky.social

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October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Quantifying cardiomyocyte contraction & nuclear deformation interaction reveals nucleus-damaging mechanism underlying LMNA cardiomyopathy

📷 @apdaria.bsky.social & Julie Heffler et al @weillcornell.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social
in @natcardiovascres.nature.com
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October 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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In the Ring: Details of the bacterial cell division structure the Z-ring revealed using cryo-ET

📷 Adrián Merino-Salomón et al @mpibiochem.bsky.social in
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October 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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A computer model comparing blood cell transport in healthy & cancerous tissue - includes physiologically significant parameters hard to measure in life

📹 Abhay Mohan & Prosenjit Bagchi, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in @biophysj.bsky.social

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October 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM