#12daysofelife — Public Fediverse posts

Published in March, this video comes from research that aimed use #CryoET to demonstrate how FtsZ filaments are recruited into a ring or “toroidal” structure as part of a bacterial cell’s division machinery. #12DaysOfeLife
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Opto-RhoGEFs is an #optogenetic toolbox that can help researchers visualise and manipulate the barrier between endothelial cells like the ones in this clip. #12DaysOfeLife #Optogenetics https://elifesciences.org/articles/84364?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days

pYtags enable spatiotemporal measurements of receptor tyrosine #kinase signalling in living cells, with enzymes shown here rapidly moving from the cytosol to the cell membranes. #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/82863?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12days

Researchers uncovered surprising findings on the assembly of #microtubules in vitro, illustrating in this animation how holes can appear during polymerisation as subunits don’t perfectly align. #Cytoskeleton #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/83021?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12days

This sandwich-like structure of columns gives strength and flexibility to the shell of a #brachiopod and has helped researchers understand the evolution of these distinctive structures during the Cambrian explosion. #Evolution #ReviewedPreprint #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/88855?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days

Optogenetics helped researchers study the role of the microtubule end-binding protein, EB1, in the growth of neurons. Here, the end of a neuron reaches a strip of blue light which optogenetically inactivates EB1 causing the microtubule fibres that usually push and grow the cell to fall apart. #Neuroscience #Optogenetics #Microtubules #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/84143?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12days

This is an #immunofluorescence image of a section of mouse testis spermatocytes, Sertoli cells, and GPX4. Researchers investigated the impact of mitochondrial defects on sperm cells. #Mitochondria #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/84710?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days

Scientists created a searchable #FluorescenceMicroscopy image resource of #Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution. Check out some of the images below. #Neuroscience #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/80660?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days

Scientists created a searchable #FluorescenceMicroscopy image resource of #Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution. Check out some of the images below. #Neuroscience #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/80660?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days

Scientists created a searchable #FluorescenceMicroscopy image resource of #Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution. Check out some of the images below. #Neuroscience #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/80660?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days

Scientists created a searchable #FluorescenceMicroscopy image resource of #Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution. Check out some of the images below. #Neuroscience #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/80660?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days

Scientists created a searchable #FluorescenceMicroscopy image resource of #Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution. Check out some of the images below. #Neuroscience #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/80660?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12Days