Video of the Month: The developing embryo
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
An improved tissue clearing protocol called EZ Clear renders entire organs, like this mouse heart, optically transparent for imaging.
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Simple, rapid and robust method makes mouse whole organs transparent for imaging
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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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