🚨@pintofscience.uk begins today! We’re kicking off our Pint of Science events in the Prince Albert pub in Battersea. 🧬 Tonight’s sold-out event features ICR scientists @ioannastefani.bsky.social and Jessica Beecroft. #Pint26

#pint26 is in less than 2 weeks! Discover the programme and book your tickets here 👉 pintofscience.co.uk 👈 🗓18-20 May 2026 📍45+ towns/cities across the UK 🗣Nearly 450 events

A much awaited research on how SNARE proteins enable highly specific fusion of vesicles with the corresponding compartment is now wrapped up in a beautiful preprint! Can’t wait to have a detailed read and use this information in cell biology applications !

An early Christmas present! The ICR’s new Hydra Bio FIB-SEM has been delivered, which will sit at the heart of a consortium between the @icr.ac.uk, Imperial, QMUL and KCL. Currently being stored at Imperial, it’ll be installed in a brand new lab at the ICR next year. Exciting things coming in 2026!🔬

Our Method of the Year 2025 is...drumroll please...EM-based connectomics!! Our Editorial introduces our choice and highlights six Comments and other related content in this special issue. Please join us in celebrating EM-based connectomics! 🎉🧠🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A paper in Nature shows that a 3.4-million-year-old partial foot found in Ethiopia in 2009 belongs to an ancient human relative named Australopithecus deyiremeda, a more primitive species of Australopithecus than the famous ‘Lucy’ (A. afarensis). go.nature.com/49BkCZY 🏺 🧪

Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

October is #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth Read how Trastuzumab monoclonal antibodies targeting HER2 receptors are at the forefront of breast cancer treatment

High-resolution #CryoET provides ‘compelling’ evidence for the true 3D architecture of glutamatergic synapses: a complex ‘synaptoplasm’ rather than the textbook postsynaptic density. buff.ly/hOYKjHH

October issue is now available! journals.iucr.org/d/issues/202... The cover highlights the article on categorizing prediction modes within low-pLDDT regions of AlphaFold2 structures from the Richardson lab @duke-university.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1107/S205... Image credit: Chistopher Williams

Many key cell structures are too thick for standard cryo-EM. Now in Nature Methods: Kavli-trained nanoscientist Yue Yu & colleagues describe a technique that boosts contrast 5x in thick biological  samples, sharpening views of proteins, viruses & organelles. bit.ly/4mJPWJ1 #KavliNano #CryoEM

Apply now for FBM #PhD #Fellowships in #Life #Sciences – join one of the Faculty’s leading laboratories. 🚨 Application deadline for fellowships: October 6, 2025. ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/en/1756... @unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @dee-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social #fbm #unil

Had a superb week, full of great insights from cryo-ET experts and hands on workshops full of practical tips and advice! Many thanks to the incredible team of organisers, instructors and the lecturers who shared with us valuable knowledge! Thank you @diamondlightsource.bsky.social for hosting us!

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...

A study in Scientific Reports suggests that people living in democratic countries show higher benevolent and lower malevolent traits and higher levels of well-being. go.nature.com/4mmkukU 🧪