#epithelial

[officialpropheticnightmares]

I had to try my own spin on it after sharing the song last night.

This is what I did instead of sleeping:

Crywolf & Echos - Epithelial (Prophetic Nightmares Cover)

I don't usually sing in my work, and even when I do it's layered with effects. So, sharing something so raw and real is a tad uncomfortable.

Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy.

[bpod-bpod]

Nurturing T cells

The organ in your chest called the thymus – where the immune system's T cells mature – is composed of a number of cell types, including epithelial cells, vital for T-cell development. This study characterises epithelial stem cells and reveals their capacity to self-renew and organise, providing insight for prolonging T-cell activity as it declines with ageing and for tackling thymic disorders

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Roberta Ragazzini and colleagues

Epithelial Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Developmental Cell, August 2023

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[dr-afsaeed]

Diverse Epithelial Lymphocytes in Zebrafish Revealed Using a Novel Scale Biopsy Method

Abstract Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are a compelling model for studying lymphocytes because zebrafish and humans have similar adaptive immune systems, including their lymphocytes. Antibodies that recognize zebrafish proteins are sparse, so many investigators use transgenic, lymphocyte-specific fluorophore-labeled lines. Human and zebrafish lymphocyte types are conserved, but many aspects of…

[francois-chung]

« We found that wounded epithelial cells can send bioelectric signals to neighboring cells over distances more than 40 times their body length with voltages similar to those of neurons. The shapes of these voltage spikes are also like those of neurons except about 1,000 times slower, indicating they might be a more primitive form of intercellular communication over long distances. »

[johniac]

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 18th, 2025

[portable-document-format]

scall hot . send help!

[terkaterr]

if they really wanted me to stop pulling dry lip skin off before it heals they wouldn't make it the most satisfying thing in the world

[birdyverdie]

dude i have to wake up in 6 hours and im really tired but i have homework due in 9 hours that i know i will not wake up early enough to do so i have to do it right now

[unopenablebox]

i'm sorry but it's very funny to get mad that people are yelling at you for making a post actively socially shaming tumblr users for being too uncool to smoke, like you were trying to make the subject of those middle school dare PSAs real for the first time ever

[geese-villain]

scheduling a pee break in the middle of microscopy class to check the donmar announcement

[bpod-bpod]

Follow that Cargo!

Analysing the details – including both spatial and organisational – of molecular cargo being transported through the secretory pathway in fruit fly epithelial cells using a vesicle tracking software tool called MSP Tracker

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Jennifer H. Richens, Mariia Dmitrieva and Helen L. Zenner, and colleagues

MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK

Image contributed by the authors under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence

Published in PLOS Biology, April 2025

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[brucekee135711]

As an oral surgeon, do you remember the development of the pre-maxilla?

The premaxilla is a crucial component of the upper jaw during the embryonic stage of development. It develops from the fused lower portions of the medial nasal processes and carries two central and two lateral incisors. The premaxilla stabilizes the facial skeleton and is comparable to the keystone of a masonry arch. Defective development of the premaxilla can lead to malformations of the mouth…

[1ncandescentrage]

Do you think fate would be a creature, kind of like God? Something unknowable to us but also we are unknowable to them. We can pretend to understand as they may do us. Too macroscopic for us to see and study all of them at once. Us too microscopic for them to see and study us either. You know homeostasis, how things aim to be dynamically unchanged? Our pH, temperature, so many things where we are just a tiny sliver, a tiny line, a thin border, like our own skin. We can only live in our skin, and isn't it terrifying to realize how thin that is? Doesn't it make sense we can be dynamically unchanged? Going through the same cycle because some part of us fears a death that will happen? Afraid we will not be? But some things can be a positive feedback loop, for better or worse. Building muscle is a positive feedback loop, in my mind. Pregnancy. Death too, in a sense. It is not always some that will be good for you, but something can change. I am not the same person I was last year. That person is dead. Yet, do I fear that death? I don't know. So what if fate was like that? Afraid that things skewing off of fate's path would bring its end not knowing that just a different version of them will leave? What if things skewing was uncomfortable for it, like an itch, a hiccup, and so they go to stop it, not Willing to grow or evolve. But what if, what if it did? For a second? For a day? What if fate gets tired and for once, for once, it can rest and see what happens. For once, it knows it can't know everything. Wouldn't that be nice?