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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy Sunday with a new issue of #cebooc! This week Laurinda Jaffe and team reveal a paracrine way of communication between follicles: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42747418/ More papers here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Subscribe here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy Sunday with a new issue of #cebooc! This week Marcos Chiaratti's team reveal how maternal DNA repair protects the embryonic genome: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42690696/ More papers here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy Sunday with a great issue of #cebooc! This week Qingling Yang and team reveal how leaky mitochondria drive oocyte aging: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42665751/ The Verlhac team discovered a new super-organelle linked to translation and growth in mouse oocytes: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42664359/

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Happy Sunday with a new issue of #cebooc! This week Yi Zhang and team investigated subcellular translation dynamics in eggs and embryos: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42620038/ More exciting papers: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy Sunday with another issue of #cebooc! @bokelab.bsky.social shows the dynamics of follicle depletion with age using whole 3D imaging of intact ovaries: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42587142/ full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy Sunday with a new issue of #cebooc! Highlight: how C. elegans #embryos adapt their spindle to reducing cell size during early development: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42562828/ Full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🐣 Happy Sunday with a new issue of #cebooc! 🧬 Today a mechanism for cohesin loss during maternal aging: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42531021/ 📋 Full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... 📩 Subscribe here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc 🧑🏻‍💻Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Happy Sunday with a new issue of #cebooc! Today the Spradling team reveals folliculogenesis waves in Drosophila's germline: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42489076/ Full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Here comes a new issue of #cebooc! Nicolas Plachta and team live-imaged sperm dynamics after #fertilization! @cp-devcell.bsky.social paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42468532/ Full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc @biomednews.bsky.social

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Biomed News @biomednews.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Read our latest testimonial from @gzaffagnini.bsky.social from the @unicologne.bsky.social. He has been curating his report on cell biology of #oocytes since June 2024 and recently released his 100th issue. You can subscribe to his report by going to biomed.news/bims-cebooc

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Happy Sunday with a new issue of #cebooc! Today Florence Marlow and team reveal that different PGCs clones contibute differently to the germline in zebrafish: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42403048/ Full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Happy Sunday with the latest research on #oocyte cell biology! Here a novel mechanism for how LH stimulation licences the oocyte for maturation: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42393195/ 📜 Full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... 🖋️ Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc @biomednews.bsky.social #cebooc

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Last few hours to vote!! Vote for your favourite repro images here: woobox.com/m89t4p, and don't forget to include ours ! 😉 @ssrepro.bsky.social #ReproBioArt

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A new issue of #cebooc is out! Here Hayden Homer reveals an unexpected role for cumulus cells in surveying DNA damage during meiotic maturation: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42339509/ Full issue: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42339509/ Subscribe: biomed.news/bims-cebooc Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I am participating with this image in the #ReproBioArt contest organised by @ssrepro.bsky.social. It depicts the fascinating, unusual, and still largely misterious internal organization of a human #egg. If you like it, please vote it here: woobox.com/m89t4p/galle... Thanks for your support!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Honoured and extremely humbled to give a talk at @buckinstitute.org. It was an amazing day of great interactions, I was highly impressed by the depth of the scientific discussions. And I so much loved the place! Thank you so much Malene and Francesca for the invitation! @nuduncanlab.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Sunday! It's been another great week for reseach in oocyte cell biology! Here @hattaca.bsky.social, @jennifergarrison.bsky.social, David Fisher and teams reveal that aging disrupts the ovarian symphony: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42310395/ 🧵1/2

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy Sunday eggficionados! 🥚 Here comes another great week for papers in repro cell biology! 🐣 @nuduncanlab.bsky.social reveals that the post-reproductive #ovary, long-thought to be inert, turns into a immune-like organ: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42271623/ 🧵 1/2

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Happy Sunday! Here comes another great week for germ cells biology! Here @diegosainzdelamaza.bsky.social and Marc Amoyel describe how somatic cells feed germ cells: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42243520/ Read the full issue with more exciting papers here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/...

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is very serious. How I see it is that a lot of people have spent a lot of public money to buy these products based on counterfeit data. This is false advertising at best, and the law protects consumers from this type of fraud. I hope there will be legal consequences for the perpetrators.

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

What a spectacular week for #oocyte #cell #biology! Here, Neil Hunter and @binyammogessie.bsky.social reveal how too much or too little chromosome cohesion impairs meiotic fidelity: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42182436/ 🧵 1/2

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Happy Sunday! Here comes your weekly issue of #cebooc full of great papers on oocyte biology! Here John Carroll and team reveals how mitochondria stream on actin filaments in oocytes: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42151181/ Full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I was looking at the open peer review file of a paper - for which I wasn't involved at all in the review process - and I noticed that some comments of one reviewer are identical, and I mean word-by-word, to my comments to a previous version of the same manuscript for another journal 😲. 🧵1/2

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Happy Sunday! #cebooc reaches 101 issues today! This week @yanivelkouby.bsky.social reviews the features the Balbiani body here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42125994/ Full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Thx to @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Sunday eggficionados! Today is #Mother's Day, celebrate it with the latest papers on #oocytes! Highlight: in worms germ granule proteins regulate endolysosomal maternal protein degradation: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42098280/ Full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Happy Sunday! Here comes another egg-cellent issue of #cebooc: The Kitajima group is on fire, look how they discover how parental genomes compete for cytoplasm after fertilization: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Full issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

1 month left to apply! The Vienna BioCenter PostDoc Program (VIP³) offers 8 fully-funded, 3-year positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics, and related fields. Apply today: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vip3-p… #VBCPostDoc

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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 30/04/2026

📢 We are #hiring! ▫️Group Leader in Chemical Biology ▫️Group Leader in Structural Biology ▫️Section Head of International Promotion ▫️#Postdoc fellows @batllelab.bsky.social, @swculek.bsky.social ...and more! ➡️ bit.ly/irbjobs #IRBJobs #ScienceJobs #JobOffer #OncoSky #AcademicSky #ChemBio

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of my MSc #students just asked me if I'm #old enough to have done #PCRs manually in water baths... 🫣 #aging

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Happy Sunday! Here comes another spectacular issue of #cebooc! Highlight: unlike drosophila, mouse germ cells do not squeeze their cytoplasm in the oocyte-to-be pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42014922/ Read the full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Hubrecht Institute @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Oocytes store large amounts of proteins to support the earliest developmental stages. In @nature.com, the Leung group describes the structure of the cytoplasmic lattice in unprecedented detail. At least 13 different proteins assemble into a stable storage complex. hubrecht.eu/oocyte-storage-complex/

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Happy Sunday! It has been another fantastic week for our beloved #oocytes! The streak on CPLs continues with this awesome work from Miguel Leung: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41986725/! Full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting.

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Happy relaxing Sunday eggficionados! Enjoy the latest papers on oocyte cell biology here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... The CPLs are on fire these days, here new insights on their functions: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41959504/ #cebooc is powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter eggficionados!! Celebrate it with the a fantastic issue of #cebooc here! biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Cytoplasmic lattices are on fire these days, here another great structural insight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41917274/ Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Looking forward to soon see these images, decontextualised and maybe AI-manipulated, in some social media post claiming proof of #chemtrails...

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It was a tough #poster design session last night! 😆 Next week I'll be at the @embo.org "Structure and function of the cytoskeleton" #meeting in #Paris, where I'll discuss the actin-dependent regulation our favorite #super-organelles in #oocytes. 1/2

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Happy Sunday 🥚! Today we have a spectacular issue of #cebooc featuring a fundamental paper in reprdocutive biology: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Can we clone a mammal indefinitely? Check it out here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41876466/ Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Takashi Akera Lab @takashiakeralab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We are hiring POSTDOC now!🚨please repost! Fully-funded 5-year position 👩🏻‍🔬👨‍🔬🧬Looking forward to your application!✉️

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Happy Sunday eggficionados! Home again after a spectacular GRC Autophagy in Ventura, CA. Enjoy a superb issue of #cebooc here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41845018/ on the assembly of CPLs. Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Good morning Ovid readers! Heading towards #California to attend the #GRC #Autophagy conference in Ventura! In the meantime, don't miss the latest papers on oocyte cell biology here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41813665/ Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social #cebooc

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy Women's Day! Is there a better way to celebrate than reading the latest 📄 on our fav. female cells? 👉🏼 biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41776310/ by @bbparis1984.bsky.social on the role of microbiota in ovarian aging! powered by @biomednews.bsky.social #cebooc

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Happy March eggficionados! Here is a fantastic issue of #cebooc for you: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41745904/ Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!

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Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Together with @spanier55.bsky.social and Boris Pfander we put together a great program with support of @cecad.bsky.social Cologne, @mpiage.bsky.social and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. Meeting site: www.for-5504.com/en/197/Confe...

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Happy Sunday! Don't miss the latest issue of #cebooc featuring the newst papers on oocyte and embryo biology! biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41721019/ Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It was a great pleasure to host Tommaso @cavazzalab.bsky.social yesterday at @cecad.bsky.social, amazing lecture and fantastic live imaging of bovine embryos! Thanks also to FOR-5504 for taking care of the costs!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Happy Carnival season egg-ficionados! Don't forget to have a look to the latest #oocyte papers here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... by @lacefieldlab.bsky.social Thanks @biomednews.bsky.social for preselecting!

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Happy Sunday egg-ficionados! In Köln we are preparing for Carnival, but there's always room for the latest papers in #oocyte cell biology: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41637509/ by @takashiakeralab.bsky.social Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social #cebooc

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Happy Sunday egg-ficionados! Here comes your weekly issue of #cebooc: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/... Highlight: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41606324/ by @brugueslab.bsky.social Powered by @biomednews.bsky.social

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Gabriele Zaffagnini @gzaffagnini.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Look at those mesmerising waves! 😍 Congrats Jan and team!

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