Transforming Our DNA - 2016 Annual Report

Science News | NOVEMBER 12, 2016 FISH FACE

This forlorn-looking face of a four-day-old zebrafish embryo represents “a whole new avenue of research” for geneticist Oscar Ruiz, who studies how faces develop at the cellular level. A new technique, developed by Ruiz and colleagues at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, mounts embryos in a gel to allow for clear, head-on pictures.

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