Defining the boundaries: challenges and advances in identifying cells in microscopy images

N Gogoberidze, BA Cimini - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Adoption of segmentation models driven by user-friendly tools and
documentation.•Advancements in novel architectures are driven by the need for a truly …

Synthetic Par polarity induces cytoskeleton asymmetry in unpolarized mammalian cells

JL Watson, LK Krüger, AJ Ben-Sasson, A Bittleston… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Polarized cells rely on a polarized cytoskeleton to function. Yet, how cortical polarity cues
induce cytoskeleton polarization remains elusive. Here, we capitalized on recently …

Predicting heteropolymer interactions: Demixing and hypermixing of disordered protein sequences

K Adachi, K Kawaguchi - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Cells contain multiple condensates which spontaneously form due to the heterotypic
interactions between their components. Although the proteins and disordered region …

An end-to-end workflow for nondestructive 3D pathology

KW Bishop, LA Erion Barner, Q Han, E Baraznenok… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in 3D pathology offer the ability to image orders of magnitude more tissue
than conventional pathology methods while also providing a volumetric context that is not …

An open-source, high-resolution, automated fluorescence microscope

AC Zehrer, A Martin-Villalba, B Diederich, H Ewers - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Fluorescence microscopy is a fundamental tool in the life sciences, but the availability of
sophisticated equipment required to yield high-quality, quantitative data is a major …

[HTML][HTML] Mutation-induced LZTR1 polymerization provokes cardiac pathology in recessive Noonan syndrome

AV Busley, Ó Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, E Hammer, F Koitka… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Noonan syndrome patients harboring causative variants in LZTR1 are particularly at risk to
develop severe and early-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In this study, we investigate …

High-throughput image processing software for the study of nuclear architecture and gene expression

A Keikhosravi, F Almansour, CH Bohrer, NA Fursova… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
High-throughput imaging (HTI) generates complex imaging datasets from a large number of
experimental perturbations. Commercial HTI software programs for image analysis …

Active shape programming drives Drosophila wing disc eversion

JF Fuhrmann, A Krishna, J Paijmans, C Duclut… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
How complex 3D tissue shape emerges during animal development remains an important
open question in biology and biophysics. Here, we discover a mechanism for 3D epithelial …

Blik is an extensible 3D visualisation tool for the annotation and analysis of cryo-electron tomography data

L Gaifas, MA Kirchner, J Timmins, I Gutsche - PLoS biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Powerful, workflow-agnostic and interactive visualisation is essential for the ad hoc, human-
in-the-loop workflows typical of cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET). While several tools exist …

Annotation and automated segmentation of single‐molecule localisation microscopy data

O Umney, J Leng, G Canettieri… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy (SMLM) is becoming a widely used
technique in cell biology. After processing the images, the molecular localisations are …