
John Ankers
@drjohnankers
Writer, coach, tutor @wooltontutors, PhD (cell biology/systems biology), Dad :-)
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Search 👀 bpod.org.uk for your favourite topics - here's some 'super-resolution' 🔬. BPoD's archive has more than 4000 biomedical research images with explanations written by professional science writers such as Ruth Williams John Ankers Kat Arney Ant Lewis Dr Soph Milbourne



Incredibly proud to write for @senetmagazine issue 13 on parenting, board games and the enticing world of Root from Cole Wehrle and Leder Games. Illustration by Mark Long. Thanks to you all :-) (Order a copy here: senetmagazine.com/collections/cu…)









3D printed scaffolds for oral delivery of effective probiotics 📷: Yue Zhang et al, Soochow University, Suzhou, China in Science Advances ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2024/1… with John Ankers


Study in zebrafish finds distinct cellular & molecular mechanisms build the atrium & the ventricle heart chambers 📹 Marga Albu et al Stainier Lab Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Nature Communications ➡️ buff.ly/3UQoAFI with John Ankers

Cancerous cells use mechanical pulling forces to help 'reprogram' nearby vessels – like training a vine to grow up a wall, albeit 10,000 x smaller! 📹: Apeksha Shapeti et al Eva Faurobert, MAtrix in Nature Communications ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2024/1… with John Ankers

Inflammatory mechanisms underlie #scoliosis linked with faulty cilia in zebrafish 📹: Morgane Djebar et al Sorbonne Université in eLife - the journal ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2024/1… with John Ankers

Eggsplosion! Revealed – the moment of egg expulsion from an ovarian follicle & how it's controlled 📹: Christopher Thomas & Tabea Marx et al Schuh Lab MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Nature Cell Biology ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2024/1… with John Ankers Woolton Tutors .

Mushroom for Improvement – Chemicals from a caterpillar-invading fungus blocks cancer growth factors 📷Holger Krisp on Wikimedia, research by S.Lawrence et al @UoN_BDI in FEBS Letters ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2024/1… with John Ankers Woolton Tutors


Cilia on pancreatic beta cells make nerve synapse-like connections with each other and with other cells 📹: Andreas Müller Nikolai Klena Gaia Pigino @msolimena et al TU Dresden Human Technopole in Nature Communications ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2024/1… with John Ankers Woolton Tutors

Storm's Eye: Modelling the migration of cells that regenerate the eye's constantly abraded cornea Image made with Leica Microsystems microscopy 📷 Kaja Kostanjevec et al University of Aberdeen Universiteit Leiden in eLife - the journal ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/7… with John Ankers
