📢 Call for speakers

We are looking for early-career researchers to speak in FocalPlane's mini-symposium run together with the popular membrane trafficking webinar series organised by Francesca Bottanelli, Fèlix Campelo and Ishier Raote.

Application deadline: Sunday 24 August

Find out more:

https://focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/14/focalplane-features-membrane-trafficking-apply-to-give-a-talk/

#FocalPlaneFeatures #Microscopy #MembraneTrafficking #Cells #TCells #ECR #ImmunologicalSynapse #MembraneDynamics #Microscope #CellBiology

La barrera hemato-retiniana de una rata vista desde un microscopio confocal. Los astrocitos que rodean a los capilares son esenciales para la formación y desarrollo de estos, por lo que si los primeros fallan, está en compromiso la nutrición de la retina.📷Thomas J. Deerinck #microbiologia #microbiology #ojos #eyes #celulas #cells
#MERS-related #coronavirus circulating in #pangolins exhibits strong fusogenicity in #human #cells and high sensitivity to fusion inhibitors, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/08/mers-related-coronavirus-circulating-in.html
#MERS-related #coronavirus circulating in #pangolins exhibits strong fusogenicity in #human #cells and high sensitivity to fusion inhibitors

The afternoon of the eighth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) is devoted to a #keynote by Naama Brenner on #biophysics of #cells, either in #unicellular or #multicellular #organisms

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales Workshop.

Application deadline: 15 August 2025

Find out more: https://www.biologists.com/workshops/february-2026-2/

#Workshop #Plants #Cells #Imaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Research #PlantPhysiology #PlantCells

🪢 The RNA revolution: How our understanding of life's blueprint is being rewritten

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-rna-revolution-life-blueprint-rewritten.html

#rna #molbio #biotech #cells #life #biology

The RNA revolution: How our understanding of life's blueprint is being rewritten

For decades, the central dogma of molecular biology—DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease. This model explained classic Mendelian traits, such as how single DNA mutations in protein-coding regions could cause diseases like sickle cell anemia. Yet, this accounts for only about 2% of Mendelian inheritance and the resulting phenotypic changes.

Phys.org