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Plant samples on the conveyor belt at the Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities - PhenoPLANT

July 13, 2023

PHENOPlant: High-throughput phenotyping capability for plant research

Trying to understand optimum growth conditions for small to mid-size crop plants? Studying the impact of drought and other climate factors? Need to perform…

Figure 1: Hierarchical scanning of entire monkey hearts. A) a heart before serial ethanol dehydration. B) stabilized heart prepared for scanning. C) transverse cut in the overview (67 µm pixel) scan. D) ‘zoomed in’ stitched plane (8 µm pixel) in the area of interest, demonstrating condensed myocardial band (#) and a coronary vessel (*). D) Single view of ‘zoomed in’ scan (2 µm pixel)

June 19, 2023

Multiscale multimodal 3D analysis of cardiovascular alterations/ structural features in a rhesus macaque monkey model for COVID-19

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest health crisis of the 21th century. Due to the extremely high number of infections, it is of…

MRI images provide information about distribution of the polymer in the different organs and tumor uptake

June 7, 2023

Supporting the development of hydrogels for drug delivery

Francois Lux is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Lyon 1. His research interests include nanomedicines – precisely the development of…

A closer look at chloroplasts involved in stem photosynthesis in Fraxinus ornus with FLIM. Photo courtesy of Sara Natale.

May 23, 2023

Looking at stem photosynthesis with FLIM

It all started at the Molecular and Biophysical Bases of Photosynthesis Conference held in Venice in May 2022. Sara Natale, then a PhD researcher…

Exemplary image of the tumor microenvironment visualized with intravital microscopy.

May 23, 2023

Intravital microscopy supports progress in nanomedicine and immunotherapy

Understanding how immune cells interact with different medications within the disease environment is at the heart of Alexandros Marios Sofias research interest. He is…

Photo during Carolina's visit to the Dutch High Field Imaging Node

May 19, 2023

Understanding Phantom Limb Pain

Phantom Limb Pain (PLP), i.e., the pain perceived in an amputated body part, is a very debilitating condition for amputated patients. However, its origin…

Experimental schema. Image courtesy of Shiladitya Mitra, Laboratory of Neurobiology of Stress Resilience, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

May 5, 2023

Analyze large-scale light-sheet microscopy images of the brain

Want to analyze and annotate your sample with the Allen Brain Atlas but don’t have the hardware, software or know-how…

Developing larva of Hymenolepis microstoma. Image by Uriel Koziol, Ilya Belevich, and Eija Jokitalo.

May 5, 2023

High-end Electron Microscopy to understand tapeworm life cycle & larval anatomy

Uriel Koziol, a professor at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, studies parasitic tapeworms (such as Echinococcus and Taenia), a type of worm…

Euro-BioImaging User Forum: Cardiovascular Research

March 7, 2023

Analysis of Nano-Structural Dynamics in Cardiomyocytes

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, from 14:00-17:00 CET. The topic is “Cardiovascular research.” This event will highlight…

Euro-BioImaging User Forum: Cardiovascular Research

March 6, 2023

The direction matters: SRe changes with direction in a rat model of graded diastolic dysfunction

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, from 14:00-17:00 CET. The topic is “Cardiovascular research.” This event will highlight…

January 24, 2023

Fruitful scientific exchange with Euro-BioImaging

David Vondrasek is a biologist at the Institute Of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, part of Euro-BioImaging’s Advanced Light and…

Cytoskeletal dynamics during microglia efferocytosis (microglia in magenta, F-actin in green). Image data are available in the BioImage Archive (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive) under accession number S-BIAD564.

December 5, 2022

Neuroscience: New microglia dataset available on BioImage Archive

Katrín Möller is a post-doctoral researcher at Biomedical Center of the University of Iceland, where she studies epigenetics and neuronal development. She’s just published…