Ikebasque, Basque Foundation for Science 2 articles published in JoVE Neuroscience Histological Examination of Mitochondrial Morphology in a Parkinson's Disease Model Dalila Ciceri*1, Lierni Gregorio-Zabala*1, Xabier Llama-Pino1, Begüm Kurt1, Jon Olano-Bringas1, Patricia Villegas-Zafra1, Nora Bengoa-Vergniory1,2,3,4 1Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, 2Department of Neuroscience, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 3Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science, 4Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre and Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford This study presents a method to analyze the morphology of mitochondria based on immunostaining and image analysis in mouse brain tissue in situ. It also describes how this allows one to detect changes in mitochondrial morphology induced by protein aggregation in Parkinson's disease models. Bioengineering Synthesis of Cationized Magnetoferritin for Ultra-fast Magnetization of Cells Sara Correia Carreira1, James P.K. Armstrong2, Mitsuhiro Okuda3,4, Annela M. Seddon1, Adam W. Perriman5, Walther Schwarzacher6 1Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Bristol, 2Department of Materials, Imperial College London, 3Self Assembly Group, CIC nanoGUNE, 4Ikebasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 5School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, 6H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol A protocol for the synthesis and cationization of cobalt-doped magnetoferritin is presented, as well as a method to rapidly magnetize stem cells with cationized magnetoferritin.