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This image of a maximum intensity projection of an E10.5 live mouse embryo was submitted by Sarah Rubin. Taken by light sheet microscopy, the image shows the early stages of skeletal development. In green, Sox9 lineage cells, the earliest marker for skeletal development, can be observed in the somites and face. The surrounding embryonic tissues can be seen in red. Over the course of several days Sox9 lineage cells undergo initial patterning to form the mold for the future skeleton.

Sarah is a PhD candidate in Prof. Elazar Zelzer’s lab in the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she studies cell morphogenesis in embryonic growth plates during development and disease. She previously obtained her MSc in the Zelzer lab, studying morphogenesis of post-natal mouse bones.

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Posted by FocalPlane, on 19 July 2021

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