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What looks like a distant star or galaxy is actually a human bone and bone marrow organoid (comBO), where cells self organise into a functional 3D niche. #AcademicSky
@abattacks.bsky.social @yuqi-shen.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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Looks like a colourful volcano, but it is actually different cell types inside gut tissue. Each colour marks a cell group and where it sits 🧪
Inside Necrotising Enterocolitis
by @vywien-lai.bsky.social
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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The gut starts planning before birth.
Green immune cells gather to form a future defence hub in the developing intestine 🧪
Developing Intestinal Immune System
Naeema Mehmood
2025 #WIMMImageCompetition
#SciComm #AcademicSky @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk #Immunology #Biology
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The actin cytoskeleton of megakaryocytes revealed in warm purple tones. These structures shape how cells spread, migrate and prepare for platelet production 🧪
Contours of Cytoskeleton
Lauren Murphy
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm #AcademicSky @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk
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Whole blood flowing over collagen under controlled conditions. Magenta, green and red reveal activated #platelets in this gold standard in vitro setup 🧪
Where Beauty Meets Function
Natalie Jooss
2025 #WIMMImageCompetition
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
#Microscopy #AcademicSky
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Immune cells lighting up in spinal cord tissue affected by #MultipleSclerosis. Red and green highlight activated microglia, blue marking nuclei 🧪
Microglia Activation in Multiple Sclerosis
By Maria Afonso Pereira
#AcademicSky #SciComm @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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These clustered macrophages show a shift from immune tolerance to inflammation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
'Grapes of Wrath' by Chaitanya Vuppusetty and Ling-Pei Ho
🖼️ 2025 WIMM Image Competition 🧪
#SciComm @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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Visually striking and biologically informative.
This image maps gene activity in #gut #tissue affected by #NecrotisingEnterocolitis 🧪
The Spatial Code of Necrotising Enterocolitis by Vy Wien Lai
2025 #WIMMImageCompetition
#SciComm @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @vywien-lai.bsky.social
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Have you ever thought the human #gut could look this beautiful?
This is adult human colon tissue stained with multiple markers, revealing its intricate structure 🧪
Beauty of Our Gut by Marta Jagielowicz
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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A sea glass at sunset?
Nope, it's an epoxy model of the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor based on the resting state structure (PDB: 9GU0), photographed on Mordialloc Beach 🧪
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor on the Beach by Anna Li
@ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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Looks like a distant planet in deep space.
It is actually the edge of a cell #nucleus expanded in gel to reveal #chromatin in blue and sites of #DNA replication in red.
The Nuclear Sponge by George Lister
2025 WIMM Image Competition
#SciComm
@rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Hurricane Granuloma by Praveen Weeratunga and Ling-Pei Ho
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This swirling scene shows fibrotic and non-fibrotic granuloma in sarcoidosis lung.
Each colour marks a cell type, revealing fibroblasts, pro fibrotic macrophages, CD four T cells and alveolar epithelium.
#SciComm @ndm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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May look like a dino egg swallowed a disco ball.
But it's actually an intestinal #organoid glowing in cyan, magenta and yellow to show #nuclei, E cadherin and Zonula Occludens one.
Disco Intestinal Organoid by Dimitrios Ioannidis
#SciArt runner up, 2025 #WIMMImageCompetition.
#SciComm
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These #megakaryocytes show six strange shapes as they respond to Galectin one. Their actin cytoskeleton is stained to reveal this variety.
Six of a Kind by Natalie Jooss
Honourable Mention, 2025 WIMM Image Competition.
#SciComm @rdm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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These shapes look like tiny sea creatures but they are healthy #platelets with bright pockets of #DNA in red. This image won the Eureka category of the 2025 WIMM Image Contest. Captured with a ZEISS LSM980 inverted confocal microscope with Airyscan detection.
#Microscopy #SciArt
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Not a T.rex but a pretentious gut tissue!
Spatial transcriptomics mapped 5,100 genes at subcellular resolution.
Captured by @vywien-lai.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 WIMM Image Competition ( #SciArt).
Proof that science doesn’t just uncover life’s mysteries — it gives you dinosaurs 🦕
