Life's a Game

Developed for creating animated films/games and visual effects, compared to purpose-built biological 3D microscopy rendering platforms the open-source 3D graphics software Blender has superior flexibility and capabilities. But getting data from the microscope into Blender isn't straightforward. So researchers have bridged that gap by creating a Blender extension written in Python called Microscopy Nodes that enables seamless integration of large light and electron microscopy data for detailed bioimage visualisation, and the potential for far more.

Read the published research article here

Written by Lindsey Goff

Lindsey Goff

Editor-in-Chief

Formerly immunologist for Cancer Research UK, Lindsey has since moved into the field of scientific publishing. She looks after all BPoD editorial matters.

• Video from work by Aafke Gros and colleagues
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, Heidelberg, Germany
• Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
• Published in EMBO Reports, January 2026