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This shot of one of the LMB’s plant towers for day 221 of #LMB365 was taken by Pablo Rodriguez. It shows the light of the setting sun reflected in the stainless steel façade. The faint large square that you can see in the middle of the tower reveals the access panel that will need to be removed if we ever had to replace an entire air handling unit

This image for day 220 of #LMB365 shows a digitalized patch of cells within the Drosophila melanogaster embryo. Cell-to-cell interfaces are randomly coloured and cell centroids are depicted with a square. Image by Yara Sanchez-Corrales in Katja Röper’s group in the Cell Biology Division.

Stands the church clock at ten to three. And is there honey still for tea? On Day 219 of #LMB365 are some of the first jars of honey produced this year from the #LMBee. 60 jars went on sale to staff and sold out within a couple of hours

Emmanuel Derivery’s group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division uses bacteria to express proteins of interest. They also modify them, in this case making the protein fluorescent pink, as this allows them to easily see the protein in microscopy experiments. Day 218 of #LMB365 shows some stages in the purification of a fluorescently-labelled protein, at the same time as the unlabelled protein.

This image for day 217 of #LMB365 shows one of the racks of zebrafish tanks found in the aquatics facility within the University occupied space at the LMB. Each 1.5 litre tank can hold up to 25 fish fry up to 30 days of age and the racks are designed to provide a controlled environment of 26C, pH7 and conductivity of 650 to ensure the welfare of the fish.

Day 216 of #LMB365 shows a brain organoid, grown by Madeline Lancaster’s group in Cell Biology, seen down a microscope. This one has been injected with a blue dye to visualise the fluid-filled cavities that are similar to the ventricles of the brain.