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Researchers have seen how cells move and attach to each other during the early development of a quail embryo. Credit: University of Queensland
Dr. Melanie White and Dr. Yanina Alvarez from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience used quail eggs to understand how cells begin to form tissues such as the heart, brain, and spinal cord. “Until now, most of our knowledge of post-implantation development came from studies on static slides, at fixed points in time.”The IMB researchers have generated quails with a fluorescent protein to reveal the structure, called the actin cytoskeleton, which gives cells shape and facilitates movement.
The researchers also imaged the open edges of the neural tube and it being ‘zipped up’ to begin to form the brain and spinal cord.
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