Read about the microscopy techniques employed to detect and distinguish traces of organisms long after their DNA has vanished.
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"This is just the start. By applying these methods to the fossilised remains of different organisms, we now have a powerful new tool to tell apart structures that may look similar but differ in their fine ultrastructure, for example ancient arthropods, plants and fungi." @dromius.bsky.social

And the grand winner of the 2025 SLCU Pumpkin Carving Competition was Neha Bhatia's Research Group with their Haunted House and Ginghosts. Congratulations Team Bhatia!

SalicS1 may also have implications for human health. SA is the natural compound behind aspirin, one of the world’s most widely used medicines, and the team says their biosensor variant that also detects aspirin could be adapted to study aspirin metabolism in human cells.

The ability to measure SA reversibly and without damaging plant tissues opens up exciting opportunities to address long-standing questions in plant biology, particularly how plants deploy SA in response to both pathogenic threats and environmental stressors.

SalicS1 visualised surges of SA accumulation spreading from the site of pathogen invasion. First author @bijuntang.bsky.social said: “With SalicS1 we can watch SA as it rises and falls in real time, inside living tissues, and even track how it spreads from cell-to-cell during infection.”