Keeping up with embryogenesis: New microscope lets users track individual cells as they move, divide
Sunday, June 3, 2012 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functioning animal requires thousands of cell divisions and intricate rearrangements of those cells. That process is captured with unprecedented speed and precision by a new imaging technology developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Janelia Farm Research Campus, which lets users track each cell in an embryo as it takes shape over hours or days.