Image of the Month

2025 ibidi Calendar, October

Juliette Vleeming
Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) on a bead, sprouting in fibrin gel. Cells were stained for actin (green, phalloidin-fluorescein), nuclei (blue, Hoechst), and cell membrane (red, WGA). The Image was acquired using a Leica Stellaris 5 confocal microscope with a 10x objective. The image is a maximum intensity projection of a z-stack (136 z-sections, 2 µm step size).

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