Stefan F. Wirth
@wirthstef
Dr. Stefan F. Wirth,evolutionary biologist,zoologist,acarologist,filmer, photographer,artist https://youtube.com/@wirthstef https://www.behance.net/stefanwirth
I am a #biologist, #acarologist (my research area), entomologist and #evolutionary biologist. Also nature #photographer and nature and #macro #filmmaker. I am interested in all aspects of biology, and I also have a great weakness for astronomy and perform pictorial arts. Here…
‘These cracks, they let the developing cells in: A chronicle of trabeculation in the developing zebrafish heart’ 🎵 Theodora Stougiannou highlights recent work from @_Priya_R & team. #preprint Check out the #preLight ⬇️ 👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/mec…
Shaping the postnatal brain - how the grooves of our brain continue to develop after birth. A new #SciArt #preLight features graphical abstracts by Jeny Jose and @sandaklyj. It highlights the work of @sarah_shi_tung, @vsnatu and @kalatwt's group. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/how…
#Monacha #cartusiana (#Hygromiidae) is a land #snail #species not originally distributed in #CentralEurope but is now frequently found there. Two #scientific papers will be briefly presented, one dealing with the increasing #northward #spread of the species in #EasternEurope, and…
Purple Hairstreak, Ryton Wood Meadows. @BCWarwickshire @savebutterflies
#高原故事 【青藏• #魅力高原 】 白云绿草马牛羊 天籁声声入画廊 #nature #Tibetan #photography #Tibetanview #scenery #plateau #Xizang #landscape #藏地风光 #西藏
In my latest @preLights post, I highlight this recent work by Giulia Allavena et al. in which the authors find that blocking telomeric DNA damage pathway using antisens oligonucleotides reduces premature aging in zebrafish 🐟🧬 Check it out. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/tel…
June in preprints 📃 We've trawled through the latest #preprints in #DevBio, #StemCells and related fields, and here's a list of what we found: thenode.biologists.com/june-in-prepri… Congrats to everyone involved! As usual, if we've missed anything, let us know.
A brilliant work by our PhD student Shih-Hao Chu ➡️A novel demonstration of the effect of embedding liquid metal droplets in conductive polymers, enhancing their electrochromic properties ✴️Flexible, durable, and high electrochromic performance pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
The #white #campion, #Silene #latifolia (#Caryophyllaceae), is common in #Berlin and prefers sunny #habitats. This article introduced aspects of its biology and also a scientific study on the regulation of its #reproductive #organdevelopment. #Silenelatifolia is native to…
Seeing and (not) believing! The role of hypoblast in primitive streak induction. In her second #preLight, Ruoheng Li covers the #preprint by @VilledieuA_bio and the @JgrosL research team. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/liv…
🔬 Biodiversity, Systematics, and Taxonomy of Ostariophysi (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii): What We Know Today After Three Decades of Integration of Morphological and Molecular Data. 🔓 mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/2/…
Are mini proteins the new antibodies? Mini proteins are highly stable, easy to manufacture, and very quick to design thanks to recent AI methods. Unlike mAbs, there is a large body of structural data to train machine learning models on to generate de novo mini protein binders.…
Mercury: The Art of Motion #sciart #spaceart #mercury #space Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in our solar system. Mercury rotates very slowly. One day on Mercury (sunrise to sunrise) lasts about 176 Earth days, while it completes an orbit around the Sun…
The Art & Science of Design! Zero da Vinci Concept. #scicomm #sciart
ok this blew up, you all saw version 1 go viral. here’s v2, cleaner, smarter, sexier
#EndothelialCell Metabolism #PulmonaryArterialHypertension FABP4/5 KO alleviates PAH & normalizes #EndothelialCell population shift (⏫Arterial EC ⏬Aerocyte Venous EC) in Tie2+ cell KO of Egln1/PHD2🐭 Lenti-FABP4/5 ⏫Glycolysis & #FattyAcidOxidation in cultured hPAEC➡️…
Protect ancient #forests "The ancient woodlands of England are critically important habitats for many rare creatures, with irreplaceable ecosystems created by the mature #trees." "Campaigners say just 5.8% of irreplaceable habitat at publicly owned sites has been fully…
Jersey Tiger Moths sitting out the heat of the summer. Me too.
My postdoc work at @TreutleinLab @GrayCampLab with @JasperJanssens7 is out in @ScienceMagazine! We screen for neuron subtypes using pro-neural TFs + morphogen combinations + scRNA-seq and profiled over 700,000 cells in 480 conditions. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Rave the Planet #Parade in Berlin and why #bassrhythms are so inspiring for dancing. #Atmospheric open-air parades have a long tradition in Berlin, whether it is the "Karneval der Kulturen" the LGBTQ Pride (CSD), or the legendary Love Parade: Berliners love #vibrant #outdoor…
