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Figure 1: Hierarchical scanning of entire monkey hearts. A) a heart before serial ethanol dehydration. B) stabilized heart prepared for scanning. C) transverse cut in the overview (67 µm pixel) scan. D) ‘zoomed in’ stitched plane (8 µm pixel) in the area of interest, demonstrating condensed myocardial band (#) and a coronary vessel (*). D) Single view of ‘zoomed in’ scan (2 µm pixel)

June 19, 2023

Multiscale multimodal 3D analysis of cardiovascular alterations/ structural features in a rhesus macaque monkey model for COVID-19

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest health crisis of the 21th century. Due to the extremely high number of infections, it is of…

A closer look at chloroplasts involved in stem photosynthesis in Fraxinus ornus with FLIM. Photo courtesy of Sara Natale.

May 23, 2023

Looking at stem photosynthesis with FLIM

It all started at the Molecular and Biophysical Bases of Photosynthesis Conference held in Venice in May 2022. Sara Natale, then a PhD researcher…

Anna-Chiara Deluca, coordinator of the ‘Italian Ministry of Research’ Grant - SEELIFE and Seetharaman Parashuraman, Coordinator of the Italian ALM Node, in Naples.

January 27, 2023

30.5 M Euros funding awarded to Euro-BioImaging Italian Nodes

Congratulations to the MMMI Italian Node and Italian ALM Node on receiving 30.5 M Euros funding over the next 3 years from the Italian…

October 26, 2022

Successful User Forum on Fighting infectious diseases

On October 6th, Euro-BioImaging ERIC organized its fourth online User Forum. The topic was “Fighting infectious diseases.” The event highlighted the range of infectious…

October 24, 2022

Death of Professor Tullio Pozzan, an eminent Italian scientist and imaging technology developer and proponent

Prof. Tullio Pozzan, eminent scientist, died at the age of 73. Italy lost one of its most prominent scientists well known worldwide for his…

Plant biology at NEUROMED

October 19, 2022

Plant imaging at DIMP Neuromed Node

What better place to bring your plant imaging project than to DIMP Neuromed Node, located in the Technology…

Italian Fund

May 19, 2022

A successful funding mechanism from the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research

In 2021, the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research kindly provided € 85,000 to support transnational user access to and from Italy. The Italian…

Fig. 4 – The happy users from Politecnico di Milano (from left: Federica Buccino, Laura Vergani, Sara Bagherifard)

April 22, 2022

Micro-cracks and lacunar network in healthy and osteoporotic subjects: an experimental validation through synchrotron phase contrast imaging

The comprehension of bone damage processes is a crucial hint for the understanding of age-related fractures that are strongly linked to osteoporosis, a diffuse…

European Researchers' Night

September 23, 2021

Euro-BioImaging Nodes and Users participate in the European Researchers’ Night

The European Researchers’ Night is a research communication and promotion event that aims to bring research and researchers closer to citizens of all…

Setting up the second phase of screening at Euro-BioImaging’s EMBL Node. Photo copyright: EMBL/Kinga Lubowiecka

November 10, 2020

Conducting interdisciplinary transnational research in the COVID-19 era

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it more difficult for researchers to travel from one country to another, slowing down cross-border cooperation. It has forced…

A view of what the user sees when connected remotely to the reconstruction PC at Italy's Elletra Synchrotron facility.

July 23, 2020

Running remote experiments in Italy’s Elettra Synchrotron laboratory

Due to the COVID-19 emergency in Spring 2020, Euro-BioImaging’s  Phase Contrast Imaging Flagship Node in Trieste, Italy, started running remote experiments at its…

Regular contacts with users are planned prior to the beginning of the project in remote access projects at MMMI Italian Node.

June 25, 2020

Remote access in preclinical imaging services

Imaging facilities across the globe are scrambling to adapt remote procedures – or new, stricter hygiene measures – that make it possible to open…

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