#microct — Public Fediverse posts

"High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity", Katzke et al. 2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-026-03005-0

"within the open science initiative ‘Antscan’, we applied high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography to capture phenotypes across a diverse and ecologically dominant insect group: ants. At https://www.antscan.info, we provide 2,193 whole-body three-dimensional ant datasets from 212 genera and 792 species to broadly cover the ant phylogeny with a global scope, also pairing phenomic data with genome sequencing projects."

#ants #Xray #tomography #microCT

🆕Interview: In the accompanying blog post, the first author, Di Li, tell us about her and talks about the internal and external morphology of 𝑂𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑖.
#phenomics #anatomy #MicroCT #3D #reconstruction

https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/06/12/what-can-larval-morphology-teach-us-about-ant-evolution-and-development/

is happy to hear that https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.10.622888 “has been judged scientifically suitable for publication" in PLOS One after a round of peer review. Once "it meets all outstanding technical requirements" it will be published online. For the moment you all have to read the bioRxiv version. And can nonetheless already look into the full dataset yourself, for example at https://webknossos.org/links/U8wuIdhmfzWMr7rm

#tomography #microct #femaleanatomy #science

I made a lucky rabbit’s foot for our #microCT lab! Micro-CT scanners are really complex pieces of equipment, which means there are a lot of different things that can break or get buggy. Hopefully our sparkly purple rabbit’s foot adds just a little bit of luck that helps us to keep scanning smoothly!

Thank you to MorphoSource, the UMMZ, Roger Benson, and Cody Thompson for making this CT data available to researchers and artists!

#3Dprinting #CTscanning #laboratory

For all electron microscopists out there:

"Crosshair, semi-automated targeting for electron microscopy with a motorised ultramicrotome"

Kimberly Meechan et al. 2022 @eLife from Yannick Schwab's lab at EMBL in collaboration with The Crick institute. https://elifesciences.org/articles/80899

Presents a new method for reliably and "selectively targeting small regions of interest in a resin block by trimming with an ultramicrotome", powered by "user-friendly software to convert X-ray images of resin-embedded samples into angles and cutting depths for the ultramicrotome."

Reviewed by three outstanding electron microscopists: Christel Genaud, Song Pang, and Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger.

#electronmicroscopy #microCT #Platynereis #science #methods #EMBL #TheCrick