An iPSC cardiac myocyte (heart muscle cell) photographed through a microscope. That yellow thing is the DNA in the nucleus. The cyan things are the motor domains of myosin II, the molecular motor that drives muscle contraction. #CellBiology

Famous artists meet cell biology 🎨🔬 Cells reimagined through iconic styles. The nucleus, mitochondria, and ER are shown. #SciArt #CellBiology #AIArt #DALLE

Cubist Cell — where biology meets Picasso. A nucleus, mitochondria, and ER reimagined through fractured planes and bold geometry. #CellBiology

Breaking News: Emma Koory won the Best Graduate Student Talk Award at the Program in Developmental Biology retreat today! Carries on Burnette Lab tradition! #CellBiology @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

DNA in the nuclei of cells within a bee's brain photographed through a spinning disk confocal microscope. #CellBiology

Someone made the decision to buy a mitochondria T-shirt this week! Yay! Its a good one! #CellBiology mag2art.com/products/mit...

A thin section through the body wall of a mouse embryo photographed through a DIC microscope. I color-coded different tissues based on cellular morphology. The three gold circles are developing ribs. The yellow part at the very bottom is a lung. @CellBiology

I have found my spirit animal. #CellBiology

Blebbisomes! They do more than in this paper! More coming soon! #CellBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A cell with lots of membrane blebs videoed through a DIC microscope. #CellBiology

A neuronal growth cone photographed through a microscope. DIC, actin filaments, and microtubules are shown. #CellBiology

Two dying breast cancer cells videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology

I asked ChatGPT to draw a blebbisome. The first extracellular vesicle with a personality indeed :-) #CellBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mag2Art.com: Activewear and canvas prints featuring photographs of mitochondria taken through a microscope. Why do these exist? I was bored. This link takes you to all of the products that turned out well: mag2art.com/collections/...

Large extracellular vesicles called "migrasomes" forming from thin retraction fibers left behind by a crawling cell. Method DIC microscopy. 5 micron scale bar. 120 min. #CellBiology

A zebrafish embryo photographed through a microscope. Actin filaments are shown. You may have to zoom in to see the details...... #CellBiology

A heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) photographed through a microscope by PhD candidate Emma Koory. #CellBiology

The leading edge of a crawling cell videoed through a microscope. Watch the actin cytoskeleton in motion as it drives membrane protrusion and cell movement. It’s like watching the cell think with its feet. #CellBiology

Burnette Lab outing to Pins Mechanical Nashville. Sadly, Burnette Lab 2.0 is coming to an end but Burnette Lab 3.0 is booting up! #CellBiology

Our microscope thought it was a Fauvist painter today. This 72 hpf zebrafish embryo shows actin filaments in brilliant color—revealing nature’s structure with the flair of Matisse. #CellBiology #Microscopy #Zebrafish #FauvismInScience

The head of a zebrafish embryo (72 hpf) photographed through a microscope. Yes, its eye follows you..... #CellBiology

An epithelial cell videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology

Burnette lab graduate student, Zach Sanchez, won the Steve Hann Outstanding Graduate Student Award! He then gave a fun talk on blebbisomes! You can read about his work here: nature.com/articles/s41... @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

Polyester fabric photographed through a microscope.

Cells undergoing cell division videoed through a spinning disk confocal microscope. DNA (red) and the Golgi apparatus (cyan) are shown. #CellBiology

A story about our blebbisome paper, "Exploring a New Frontier in Cell Communication: A Q&A with the Burnette Lab on Blebbisomes" has now been posted by @vubasicsciences.bsky.social! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

Interested in how the heart generates contractile forces to pump blood? Then take a look at our new paper "α- and β-myosin II can be non-uniformly distributed within the cardiac sarcomere". #CellBiology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A crawling cell videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology

A cross section of a the spinal cord from a mouse embryo photographed through a microscope. Technique: inverted phase contrast and fluorescence showing a gradient of one of my favorite proteins. #CellBiology

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A cell photographed through a microscope. The powerhouses of the cell, mitochondria (green), the Trans-Golgi Network (TGN) (red), and actin filament cytoskeleton (purple) are shown. #CellBiology

Second PhD defense of the week! Anyone who wants a zoom link, let me know by 12 pm EST/11 am CST. #CellBiology Check out James' works below. One more on its way! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Dr. Sanchez? Yep! Congratulations @ento-sanchez.bsky.social! #CellBiology

It is today! #CellBiology @ento-sanchez.bsky.social Zoom link available upon request!

Introducing blebbisomes! Cover art by @ento-sanchez.bsky.social! #CellBiology Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have a look at the most recent #openaccess #research #article from Dylan Burnette's lab @mag2art.bsky.social in #CYTOSKELETON .Pharmacological Inhibition of β #Myosin II Disrupts Sarcomere Assembly in #Human iPSC-Derived Cardiac Myocytes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) photographed through a microscope. Actin filaments are shown. #CellBiology

Serendipity in science! Many years ago while investigating the timing of cell spreading, I noticed two strange cell-like objects landing on the coverslip. This was my first glimpse of blebbisomes in action! #CellBiology 🧐🎥 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Blebbisomes are large, organelle-rich extracellular vesicles with cell-like properties" and are distinct from other large EVs both in their content and morphology. This video shows a blebbisome (magenta) in the same field of view as forming migrasomes (yellow). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Blebbisomes are large, organelle-rich extracellular vesicles with cell-like properties". Here is a video showing a blebbisome forming with mitochondria labeled with MitoTracker-Red ( shown in yellow; red/gray overlay poorly). Video Length- 7.8 hours. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anyone else have a publication gap in 2023 or 2024? The pandemic’s impact on experimental productivity really hit my lab during that time. We're back on track now, but we didn't publish a single paper last year. A delayed Oof! #Science #CellBiology

"Blebbisomes are large, organelle-rich extracellular vesicles with cell-like properties" and are made by multiple cell types. This video shows fibroblasts (green arrows) and fibroblast-derived blebbisomes (magenta-arrowhead). Read about blebbisomes here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A News and View about blebbisomes too? That's awesome! Fig. 1 shows the first cartoon that includes blebbiosmes with the rest of the extracellular biology universe! So cool! #CellBiology #EVuniverse www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am excited to finally be able to share with you our work reporting the first Extracellular Vesicle with a personality! This video does not show a cell, it is a Blebbisome! #CellBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research published in @PNASNews explores how mutations in the KCNQ1 potassium channel lead to type 1 long QT syndrome (LQT1), a condition that increases the risk of life-threatening arrhythmias. Here’s a breakdown of the key findings. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Pharmacological Inhibition of β-Myosin II Disrupts Sarcomere Assembly in Human iPSC-Derived Cardiac Myocytes" is out! We explore why simply removing β-Myosin II does not affect sarcomere assembly, but inhibition with CAMZYOS (mavacamten) does. doi.org/10.1002/cm.2...

Happy Valentine's Day! This is a two chambered heart from a zebrafish embryo photographed through a spinning disk confocal microscope. The ventricle is on the left and the atrium in on the right. The nuclei of the cells are shown. #CellBiology #Valentinesday2025

Neuronal growth cones videoed through a differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope. #CellBiology #Science #Biology #microscopy

A cell undergoing cell division photographed through a microscope. Actin filaments (red) and myosin II filaments (cyan) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy

Spectacular night skies, 700 species new to science, and mitochondria as you've never seen them before. These are January's best science images, chosen by Nature's photo team 📸 https://go.nature.com/40WDvls