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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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Key role for two proteins Esrp1/Esrp2 in pituitary & in cranio-facial development

📹 @shcarroll.bsky.social et al @childrensphila.bsky.social in
@dev-journal.bsky.social

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MAGIC – A new genetic engineering toolkit of plasmids for gene expression manipulation in vitro & in vivo

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📷 William B. Gillespie et al, @wythelab.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social
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December 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Probing miBrain: Patient-personalised, lab-grown brain model for studying disease & treatment

📹 @alicestanton.bsky.social & Adele Bubnys et al @mit.edu in
@pnas.org

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Sox and Eyes: Transcription factor SOX2's vital role revealed in driving neuron development as the eye's retina is formed

📷 Fuyun Bian, Kimiasadat Golestaneh, Emily Davis & Abdullah Khan et al @pittophthalmology.bsky.social in
@dev-journal.bsky.social

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December 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Scaleable production of human stem cell-derived kidney organoids – utility confirmed by transplanting into kidneys in the lab

📷 Elena Garreta, Daniel Moya-Rull, Alberto Centeno & Andrés Marco et al @ibecbarcelona.eu in @natbiomedeng.nature.com

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December 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Pinpointing single molecules with a technique called motor-PAINT to analyse microtubule filament orientation & polarity at super resolution in developing neurons

📹 @mkiwanski.bsky.social et al Kapitein lab @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social in @jcellsci.bsky.social

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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Better Bait: 'Irresistible' sweaty sock scent traps black flies that spread the river blindness parasitic worm

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Mapping chromatin's structure at base-pair resolution reveals how it mediates cis-regulatory element interactions

📹 Hangpeng Li et al @jojdavies.bsky.social, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, @imm.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk in @cellpress.bsky.social

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Mapping chromatin's structure at base-pair resolution reveals how it mediates cis-regulatory element interactions

📹 Hangpeng Li et al @jojdavies.bsky.social, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, @imm.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk in @cellpress.bsky.social

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December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Enzyme Mos–MAPK acts as a switch between mitotic & meiotic cell division

📷 Ivan Avilov et al @plenart.bsky.social lab Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen in
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November 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Key role for two proteins Esrp1/Esrp2 in pituitary & in cranio-facial development

📹 @shcarroll.bsky.social et al @childrensphila.bsky.social in
@dev-journal.bsky.social

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November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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A 'micro-assault course' fibre scaffold for studying forces generated by cells as they behave & move

📹 @pierreucla.bsky.social et al @institutcurie.bsky.social Université PSL, Sorbonne Université in @pnas.org

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November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Liver lobule zone molecular characteristics dictate susceptibility to WNT-driven liver cancer

📷 Alexander Raven et al @cruk-si.bsky.social in @nature.com

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November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Head to Mosquitos: Cell atlas reveals sex differences in mosquitos – potentially applicable for disease spread management

📷 @oliviagoldman.net, AlexandraDefoe et al @rockefeller.edu
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November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Nanoparticles mimicking a cell's own nucleosome DNA-packaging system developed in mice to deliver gene therapy for fibrotic lung disease

📹 Nan Kong & Dinghao Chen et al Westlake University, China
in @science.org Advances

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November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Fungi filaments have a growing tip & reabsorption behind: the protein actin drives this recycling

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📷 by Marisa Delgado & Mario Pinar et al @cib-csic.bsky.social in @plos.org Genetics

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November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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3D panoramic photoacoustic computed tomography (3DPanoPact) sees deep into living tissues without unwanted light scattering or limited field of view

📹Xuanhao Wang et al, Research Center for Computing Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou in
@natcomms.nature.com

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November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Silencing RAB23 gene associated with Carpenter syndrome confirms this genetic disorder as a ciliopathy

📷Wan Ying Leong & Catherine Hong Huan Hor et al, Hong Kong Baptist University & Duke-NUS Medical School in
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November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Liver Little: Vascularisation developing in new-born mouse liver lobules contributes to determining the size of the organ at adulthood

📹 D. Berfin Azizoglu et al @hhmi.org @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com

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November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Silent Treatment: Anti-virulence therapeutic peptide EntV can spare healthy microbes when limiting harmful fungal biofilms

📷 Giuseppe Buda De Cesare et al University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston in @plos.org Pathogens

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November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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
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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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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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