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Genes & Development Features DeltaVision Cell Image
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 Biology researchers at the University of California, San Diego, used Applied Precision's DeltaVision® Restoration Microscope System to help understand how multi-cellular organisms develop from a single cell. Their research, led by biology professor Raffi V. Aroian, Ph.D., is featured in the Nov. 1, 1999 Genes & Development, one of science's top journals.
To view a larger picture of the cover image, click here.
The DeltaVision gave UCSD researchers beautifully detailed images (through immunofluorescence) of an embryo of C. elegans, a free-living nematode. C. elegans is a primitive organism - a smooth-skinned, unsegmented worm growing to about 1mm - which shares basic characteristics of human biology. The worm, conceived as a single cell, grows into an embryo, providing an abundance of genetic, cell biological, molecular, and biochemical information for developmental studies.
Read more about Dr. Aroian's lab research into multicellular organism development, click here.
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