How cells stick to things and move around, microscopy, cats, garden bugs, forays into machine learning, occasional political snark. Asst Prof University of Bath, UK 🏳️🌈
Julia Sero
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Maybe some decisions should be kept in the hands of experts and works after all, hmm?
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This rabbit hole goes deep in the most predictable way.
My home office plant is maybe getting a little bit feral? I love it but starting to fear it. It's really manoeuvring itself to take full advantage of the skylight. Hand for scale.
Bats are the primary pollinators for agave plants.
Commercial agave, used to create tequila & mezcal, is increasingly being propagated via clonal "pups", because the flowering stalk is cut to increase the rate at which the "heart" (piña) grows.
This decreases genetic diversity....
Julia Sero
Julia Sero
Julia Sero
How are two embryos alike?
As we collect spatio-temporal microscopy data, we want to quantify variability in the timing of key developmental events.
Alignment of multiple recordings is a core engineering challenge here and we suggest a solution; read about it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Some good news amid the ongoing awful everything else.
'medics in London have successfully used the technique to effectively cure five NHS patients with severe lupus aged between 19 and 50'
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Marking/grading season - the perfect time to defrost and reorganise all the lab freezers!
Doctors say therapy that genetically modifies person’s T-cells could offer cure for chronic autoimmune disease
Sometimes I like doing "random" expts. It's how I learn new things n know the limit of my system. Optogenetics is not too trivial in 🐸, but here is an example of it applied to the rear end 🔴 of a macrophage expressing Opto-Ras. It's strong enough to reverse the cell's direction. #FluorescenceFriday
Julia Sero
Let me introduce the pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus), the state bat of California, as of 2023.
I'm a big fan for one simple reason (it's not the fantastic smile):
(📷:Ann Froschauer/USFWS)
Blue lobsters are very rare: 1 in 2 million by some estimates.
But SPLIT COLOR LOBSTERS are 1 in *50* million.
This lobster is a chimera of two fertilized eggs that fused together, with two distinct genomes: male on one side, female on the other.
(📷: Woods Hole Science Aquarium/NOAA Fisheries)
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️🌈
One year ago.
Ron Filipkowski
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OK. I am noticing a pattern...
Today is the second "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture"
to be given by Gary Taubes on
"Energy Balance or Fuel Partitioning? A History Lesson in the Science of Obesity Pathogenesis, and Its Implications."
1/11
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Ana Pineda, PhD
Jeremy Berg
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Quantitative comparison of morphogenesis across individuals remains a fundamental challenge, as developing embryos vary in shape, orientation and developmental tempo. Moreover, real-time three-dimensi...
