Arabidopsis thaliana
embryo cells imaged by confocal microscopy.
Not exact matches
Visually, she is filming and analyzing time - lapse
images of human
embryos in the incubator and has been able to correlate various parameters of how
cells divide with the probability that the
embryos will make it to a full blastocyst stage by day 5 - 6 of culture.
A microscopy
image of the complete set of chromosomes in a 2 -
cell stage mouse
embryo reveals chemical tags that, decorate, DNA - packaging proteins called histones.
For Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem
Cell Institue, it was a bad start to the week: Just after 6 a.m. last Monday, he and a bevy of others received an unsigned e-mail from a virtually untraceable address,
[email protected], pointing out what it said «appears to be duplicated
images and
embryos used in a Nature manuscript published in 2009.»
The
images are meant to show that the ES
cells from cloned
embryos look similar to those derived from IVF
embryos, suggesting the cloned ES
cells are the real thing.
The microscope's
images can reveal the divisions and intricate rearrangements of individual
cells as biological structures emerge in a developing
embryo.
Each colored circle in the
image shows one of the
embryo's
cells, and the corresponding tail indicates that
cell's movement over a short time interval during early embryogenesis (at around 3 hours post-fertilization).
Among other things, the paper that Hertig and Rock published in 1954 contained some of the first micrograph
images of a human
embryo at the two -
celled stage.
The group found that for species of snails that are dominantly sinistral, early
embryo cell division is a mirror
image of what happens in the dominantly dextral Lymnaea stagnalis.
By snapping 3D
images of fluorescently labeled
embryos, Kuroda's team found that in dextral snails, the spindles — tubular structures holding the chromosomes — are already spiraled and the
cell boundaries seem twisted at an early stage of the third cleavage.
By implementing either superresolution structured illumination or by dithering the lattice to create a uniform light sheet, we
imaged cells and small
embryos in three dimensions, often at subsecond intervals, for hundreds to thousands of time points at the diffraction limit and beyond.
New
images suggest that 570 - million - year - old, many -
celled blobs from China are not animal
embryos as once thought, but rather some kind of spore - releasing cyst.
Embryonic hemocytes lend themselves beautifully to live imaging studies since fluorescent probes can be expressed specifically in these
cells using hemocyte specific promoters and their movements subsequently
imaged within living
embryos using confocal timelapse microscopy.
Analysis for
embryos was done on
images of seven different
embryos (seven mutant and seven wild type
embryos) inside gravid hermaphrodites (only one and two
cell early embryonic stages were chosen for comparison).
In this
image, a novel type of human stem
cell is shown in green integrating and developing into the surrounding
cells of a nonviable mouse
embryo.
The
imaged embryos show abundant proliferation of
cell growth (red, first column) in both normal and BRCA1 - deficient brains at this stage.
The microscope
image of the dorsal closure of a fly
embryo shows alter - nating stripes of epithelial
cells with aligned microtubule bundles (green) and epithelial
cells treated with a microtubule - destroying drug (blue).
Now researchers can
image live
cells, organs, and animal
embryos in ways that were previously out of reach.