Studying how neural crest cells journey through the embryo, this Caltech developmental biologist has revealed how they form major cell types, including peripheral neurons, bone, and smooth muscle.
Figure 2: In this 5-day-old chicken embryo imaged with an Olympus SZX12 stereo microscope equipped with fluorescence optics, GFP can easily be detected in the spinal cord. It is also important ...
By the 10-day mark, all embryos at 28 rotations per minute had abnormalities they could not survive. So, it appeared that ...