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Video of the Month: The developing embryo

February 1, 2024 brain development, embryo development, Foxi3, imaging, Research

This 3D rotating visualization of a developing embryo shows the locations of proteins involved in orchestrating this complex process.

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The most viewed image of the month of 2023

December 8, 2023 EZ Clear, Image of the month, imaging, most viewed, transparent heart

An improved tissue clearing protocol called EZ Clear renders entire organs, like this mouse heart, optically transparent for imaging.

A mouse eye that was rendered optically transparent with EZ Clear. The eye is made up of a glowing rainbow of colors.

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Simple, rapid and robust method makes mouse whole organs transparent for imaging

October 13, 2022 EZ Clear, imaging, immunofluoescence, optically transparent tissues, Research, whole organ clearing

This new tissue clearing method simplifies and speeds up the process to render tissue optically transparent, enabling 3D imaging of entire, intact tissues or organs.

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How the egg and the embryo actually travel through the fallopian tube

August 5, 2021 animal reproduction, egg and embryo, fallopian tube, imaging, in vitro fertilization, oviduct, preimplantation embryo, Research, tomography

Eggs and embryos go through an unexpected journey that is more dynamic and complex than previously thought.

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New evidence supports the presence of microbes in the placenta

June 13, 2019 bacterial RNA, imaging, microbiome, placenta, Pregnancy, Research

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine previously found evidence that the placenta harbors a sparse but still present community of microorganisms, which they and other

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Image of the Month: Close and personal with bacteriophage P22

April 3, 2017 bacteriophage P22, cryo-electron microscopy, imaging, Nanotechnology, P22 virus, protein chemistry

For nearly 30 years the laboratory of Dr. Wah Chiu, Distinguished Service Professor and Alvin Romansky Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Baylor has

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Image of the Month: Art meets science to show tomogram of neuron-like cell and model of bacterial virus

August 31, 2016 electron cryomicroscopy, imaging, nanomachines, viral structure, virus

Dr. Wah Chiu heads the lab of Electron Cryomicroscopy of Biological Nanomachines at Baylor College of Medicine. In Chiu’s lab, science not only resolves microscopic structures

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DNA origami: designing structures with potential new uses in nanotechnology

June 30, 2016 algorithm, cryo-electron microscopy, DNA origami, imaging, Nanotechnology

Scientists are using DNA to build nano-scaled devices – DNA origami – that could be used to improve our understanding of basic biological mechanisms as well as

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Image of the Month – Triple immunofluorescence of MCF-7 breast cancer cells.

February 16, 2016 Cancer, imaging

IMAGE OF THE MONTH: MCF-7 breast cancer cells: Triple immunofluorescence for estrogen receptor (in red), androgen receptor (in green) and glucocorticoid receptor (in blue) demonstrates marked

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Image of the Month: Mouse breast tumor cells

December 15, 2015 Cancer, imaging

Mouse mammary carcinoma 4T1 cells in pseudo-colored scanning electron micrographs. These mouse breast tumor cells (shown in these pseudo-colored scanning electron micrograph, are used to

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