#MicroscopyTuesday: Planes of a Worm

#CElegans, a small nematode worm, has just a single nerve cell that regulates sleep. 💤 Despite that, it keeps providing scientists with key insights into sleep mechanisms! 🧠🚀

📸 Inka Busack, Bringmann Group, BIOTEC

A research team led by Prof. María Teresa Pisabarro (BIOTEC/ @tudresden.bsky.social) and Dr. Jörg Mansfeld (ICR) developed small molecules that block cell cycle. The molecules show promise as leads for future cancer therapies.

Read more ➡️ tud.link/6c2qgu

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🧠😴 How does the brain control sleep and waking?

New research with tiny C.elegans from Prof. Henrik Bringmann’s team at BIOTEC @tudresden.bsky.social shows a single brain signal acting like a switch! 🔁
Published in @currentbiology.bsky.social

Read more: tud.link/c17vz4

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#MicroscopyTuesdays: The Beautiful Plasticity of Macrophages

#Macrophages respond to biochemical and mechanical ⚙️ signals in fascinating ways! Here, a macrophage changes its shape when exposed to an ultra-soft microenvironment.

#immunity #mechanosensitivity #ThankYouImmunology #DayofImmunology

Today is #WorldCancerDay:

ℹ️ Did you know that cancer cells have different biomechanical properties than their surrounding tissue?

🔬Scientists in Taubenberg group at BIOTEC study how such changes affect the potential of cancer cells to metastasize and become more invasive.
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💧 Easing the Pressure: new publication in Developmental Cell by the Honigmann group.

The team found new role for tight junctions during organ development. Tight junctions relax the cytoskeleton to reduce tension between cells and let water inflate the tissue.

Read more ➡️ tud.link/nq6maq

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We have a new director! 🎉
Prof. Henrik Bringmann takes is the new director of BIOTEC! Prof. Alf Honigmann will serve as a deputy director.

We also thank the outgoing director, Prof. Alberti, for outstanding work leading BIOTEC for the last two years. 💐

Read more ➡️ tud.link/qtzeat

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