Susann Meyer

Heart muscle cells cultivated in the laboratory from iPS cells: The image shows the structure of the muscle fibres. The project at Göttingen University Medical Centre (UMG), funded by the zukunft.niedersachsen programme, works with such patient-specific models. Image: umg/lukas cyganek

Super-resolution image of cytoskeleton and focal adhesion proteins taken using the new versatile and cost-effective microfluidics system. The “overlay” of all the different target molecules reveals exquisite and complex detail up to 100 times sharper than conventional microscopy. Photo: adapted from the original publication in ACS Nano (2026). DoI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c18697

The team behind Ovo Labs (from left)- Dr. Agata Zielinska, Prof. Dr. Melina Schuh, and Dr. Oleksandr Yagensky. © Irene Böttcher-Gajewski _ Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences