New preprint from the lab! How do tissue shapes influence cell fate decisions? By manipulating brain organoid geometry, we show that lumen rounding directs apical progenitor division mode and promotes the emergence of basal progenitors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

And here is the Walk through video tutorial on how to make your proteins move with Brownian motion! youtu.be/uOEsHBZ-omY It's my first recording and I am not sure it is because of my stuffy nose or I always sound like this... 🫠

Do you also want to make animation with proteins moving following Brownian motion paths? Just get my Geometry Nodes presets from: vizcie.gumroad.com/l/BlenderBro... As soon as I have a microphone arriving and some time I will try to make a walk through tutorial ^_^ #BlenderScience #GeometryNodes

📢 Obert el Concurs #Xprimenta2026! 🧪🎥 Iniciativa de l'@fcri.bsky.social i @comunicacioaccc.bsky.social per a alumnes i docents (de primària a FP). El repte: explicar un concepte científic amb vídeos de màx. 3 minuts amb experiments. 🗓️Termini inscripció: 10/04 🔗Més info: tuit.cat/8fqXb

Wanna see DNA transcription, translation, ParM filaments assembling and travel through the basement membrane of follicle cells? Check out the reel I prepared with animations for academia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMjq...

February's PDB Molecule of the Month is for "Histones Across the Tree of Life". I wanted to focus on the histones of archaea Methanothermus fervidus which thrives at 83°C in sulfur pools in Iceland. I call the image: "Compacting DNA at nearly boiling water."

Who knew that Blender could help us study the stars? 🌌 In this new User Story, Ph.D student @jamshidi3d.bsky.social explains how he used Geometry Nodes for his research in cosmology. www.blender.org/user-stories... #b3d #geonodes #cosmology #research #userstory

Our paper on [Bentopy](doi.org/10.1002/pro....) is out in Protein Science! We developed Bentopy to make assembling large-scale MD models more accessible, building on what we learned from trying to simulate whole-cell models. Here's our updated Martini JCVI-syn3A cell model👇

#Dataviz books everyone should read 📚 - a community sourced #charticle informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio... Created in association with @‌DataVizSociety #iibwab

As we get ready to watch Ilia Malinin skate, please read this fascinating piece by my colleague @parshallison.bsky.social about how the self-appointed Quad God is able to do what he does. And how figure skaters have been able to land progressively more difficult jumps. ⛸️ 🧪

Thanks to everyone who participated and I have a blog post here with lots of resources that can help with scientific figure design, posters, grant figures, and data visualization! #SciArt #Academia #sciencepublishing #journalcovers #academics #phd #gradschool www.maayanvisuals.com/post/visual-...

Read the case study from my last image were we reimagined nanotechnology artistic illustrations ^_^ www.vizcie.com/post/making-...

What if we could have nanodroplets to deliver drugs or perform chemical reactions, but that they don't stick to surfaces, yet they can merge on demand? Tenjimbayashi-san and coworkers from the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics in Japan made it! 👇 www.nims.go.jp/mana/researc...

RNA-only Nanocages - a white canvas for biotechnology? What could they store inside? Could they be used for drug delivery? I made this image for The Molecule of the Month Challenge from Blender Science Discord. Refs: www.vizcie.com/post/rna-onl... #biotechnology #SciArt #Science #DrugDelivery

New paper out! We show how mechanosensitive adherens junction proteins link actomyosin contractility to actin assembly using in vitro reconstitution. Huge congrats to Aurélie Favarin, Rayan Said, & all authors! In Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #actin #myosin #mechanobiology

Visit PDB-101 to watch the 2025 video "Caffeine and Adenosine: Antagonist and Agonist"

Simply delighted to end the year with the acceptance of Yan’s paper www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It was a heroic effort on her part, and many thanks to all our collaborators for their help! @vizcie.bsky.social @juliaeckert.bsky.social

Wishing you all a Merry and Healthy Christmas with the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social Molecule of the Month FOXP3! Learn more: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/312 #MoleculeOfTheMonth #NobelPrize #MerryChristmas

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

As someone who produces digital educational content this is very relevant. I keep thinking how to make my work beneficial for society.

I watched the Alien Prometheus movie recently and the opening scene had some pretty funky DNA ✅ Left-handed double helix ✅ Extreme 🔥 grooves ✅ ~15 bases per turn ✅ Super-glued base ladder ✅ Subatomic black goo What are some of your favourite funny molecule structures from TV/movies?

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

I made a #BlenderAdd-on to load image sequences on the right timeline frame in the editor, even if you are missing frames. Grab it for free from vizcie.gumroad.com/l/BlenderIma...

When labelling an element in your microscope videos, how long should you keep the label visible so the audience can catch it and read it? It is longer than you may think. See image ^_^ (from Copilot)

Watch the documentary Target Zero to learn about the challenge and emotional complexity of the fight to control HIV infection

The hidden danger of Biorender (& the death of scientific illustration) A short thread 🧵

November 17 is designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action. Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.

Really important work to help protect artists from AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...

Join the official Blender Survey 2025! Let's get a picture of the community and help shape the future of Blender together. 🧡 www.blender.org/news/blender... #b3d #DevFund

We hire! The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities. More details here: cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

9 days to go: * 2 x open positions! * Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package * University of Toronto appointments * Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍

I don't think I will ever get a nicer review. ❤️ Everyday trying to give a better service.

How did a brain gene end up behaving like a virus? Research has shown that there is an evolutionary connection between Arc, retroviruses, and virus-like genetic elements called retrotransposons. More at Molecule of the Month: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm...

Such a beautiful talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYb...

🕒 NEW VIDEO 🕒 How can a cell know the time? Let's explore the beautiful 24-hour cycle produced by #KaiC proteins in the cyanobacteria S. Elongatus. Rendered in #blender3d with @bradyajohnston.bsky.social's brilliant Molecular Nodes add-on. #biology

Today in the journal Science: BioEmu from Microsoft Research AI for Science. This generative deep learning method emulates protein equilibrium ensembles – key for understanding protein function at scale. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Because we always see the grey matter surface of the brain, but the white matter shape is so beautiful that I just wanted to play a bit with it. Which is your favourite imaging data?

Check out this new review (with animations, natch) of mechanisms of licensing origins of DNA replication - a wonderful (and continuing!) collaboration with Bruce Stillman @cshlnews.bsky.social and John Diffley @crick.ac.uk! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sometimes 3 lines of code can save a lot of time. What are you procrastinating today? #Blender3D Python Coding.

Lighting set up for the current scene is getting out of hands ^o^. "I didn't have time to light a scene with few lights, so I put a lot instead"

Download an image of H5N1 The image shows David Goodsell's artistic illustration of the H5N1 virion in cross-section and images of select H5N1 proteins created using Mol* pdb101.rcsb.org/lear...

It became that season of the year to put ice pads under the fan of my laptop and unplug for rendering. 🤟

The Japan Pavilion at the #EXPO2025 was all about sustainability. The cutest room had Hello Kitty algae. Did you know that algae can absorb 14 times as much CO2 as a cedar tree? And produce 50 times as much protein as beef for the same amount of water? But could you eat these faces? Maybe yes.

Last night was very hot in Japan, I could not sleep and ended up rewriting my "about" page. As many decisions in the middle of the night, might be a bad one and I may change it again soon. Have a peep before I change it back and let me know if I should keep it or not. www.vizcie.com/about

Very inspiring to hear sir Paul Nurse explaining his research and reflect about - What is Life? - Why working with yeast has been so important to understand cells also in humans, - The consequences of natural selection, - Our responsibility to steward nature. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZv...

Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

📣#RIKEN is calling for applications from early career researchers interested in heading their own lab under the Early Career Leaders Program. Preregistration website opens Jun 3, 2025. Deadline to register basic info is Aug 7, 2025 See more program details👇 www.riken.jp/en/careers/p...

We built something new for plant researchers! A library of scientific icons of plants! If you would like to get early access, fill this form: tinyurl.com/u3wvdts5 Kindly share the post and help us reach more researchers.

In the context of our @reviewcommons.org revision process, I'm happy to announce Microscopy Nodes v2.2.0! This packs lots of new fun features, including new color management 🌈, clearer transparency handling 🫥, custom default settings 🔧 and more! Preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2025...