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October 9, 2008
Life: the First 24 Hours of an Embryo's Cells (Video)
Topics: Political News and commentariesFor the first time, scientists can actually watch the initial 24 hours of the life of an embryo at the cellular level:
(Via Wired Science):
HT - NROWith a newly developed microscope that uses a sheet of light to scan a living organism from many different dimensions, scientists were able to track the complex cellular organization of a zebrafish embryo as it grows from a single cell to 20,000 cells.
"Imagine following all inhabitants of a town over the course of one day using a telescope in space," Philipp Keller of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, said in a press release.
"This comes close to tracking the 10 thousands of cells that make up a vertebrate embryo."
Posted by Richard at October 9, 2008 11:14 PM
I can't hear it. Is there a problem with the sound?
Posted by: Christina Dunigan at October 10, 2008 1:30 AM
Christina, sound doesn't come through with me either, neither on YouTube. I don't think there's any sound with it - just the microscopic event of life.
Posted by: Mike in Iraq at October 10, 2008 8:46 AM
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