Our latest preprint, led by @lizihegarty.bsky.social & aided by @erinwatson.bsky.social shows that fixation time matters when it comes to visualising #macrophages in #salivarygland & other epithelia.We find 1hr allows detection of mac subsets while preserving architecture. With @bainlab.bsky.social

bioRxiv Immunology@biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Fixation matters: duration in fixative prior to immunofluorescent analysis directly impacts macrophage visualisation in epithelial tissues https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705745v1

I am delighted to see this work published. A big thanks to everyone, particularly the excellent supervision of @lyons-lab.bsky.social, the work of co-first author @juliavdkorput.bsky.social and wonderful collaborators in Amsterdam and Oregon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Myelin sheaths in the central nervous system can withstand damage and dynamically remodel

Myelin damage is a hallmark of several neurological disorders, but how it occurs remains to be fully understood. In this study, we found that early damage in zebrafish and rodent demyelination models ...

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Colonic macrophage heterogeneity revealed by CD11c and CD163 www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Great to see this out for all to see after a lot of hard work by @lizihegarty.bsky.social and @bainlab.bsky.social. Colonic #macrophages persist but are transcriptionally altered post- #inflammation in a mouse model of #colitis.

bioRxiv Immunology@biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · last yr.

Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677333v1

Congratulations all!

@lyons-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

For those who want a distraction and/ or are interested, here's the latest from the group, led by Phil Braaker www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the brain repair myelin after injury? We mapped the full cellular choreography of white matter repair using snRNA-seq + Slide-seqv2, uncovering a type I interferon-driven glial program that recruits lymphocytes to promote remyelination. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Details below 👇

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Remyelination Reveals a Concerted Interferon-Responsive Glial State That Coordinates Immune Infiltration

Remyelination, the process by which axons are re-encased in myelin after injury, is a critical step in restoring brain function, yet the dynamics from initial injury to repair remain poorly characteri...

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