Caleb Dawson

We filmed platelet production to see how each person makes 100 BILLION of them a day.

Platelets are tiny blood cells that prevent bleeding.
They're made by giant cells in the bone marrow called megakaryocytes, but exactly how has been controversial…

doi.org/10.1084/jem.20…

Follow me on Bluesky for (increasingly rare) microscopy and immunology content! bsky.app/profile/scicad…

I miss having endless time for sharing creation in all its microscopic glory, but early parenthood is even better (most of the time).

#microscopy #sciart #immunology

What's the craziest Cre/loxP strategy you've seen?

I was sick of manually sketching out complex Cre/lox and Dre/rox recombination outcomes, so I created a little program to simulate them. Hope it saves you some time. cadaws.github.io/recombine/

#molecularbiology #cloning #genetics

Brilliant talk from @AmandaOPhD on spatial transcriptomics to uncover an IgA plasma cell niche in the lung.
doi.org/10.1038/s41588…

Impressive 3D Merfish from @Maurice_Y_Lee at the WEHI spatial transcriptomics symposium. Thanks for making the trip over to Aus!