This three-dimensional computer image of a mouse embryo was created using data collected during a CT (computerized tomography) scan of the embryo. The CT scan uses X-rays to make a series of images of ...

Researchers at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute have, for the first time, identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, inside a living mouse embryo. For ...

Embryos start out as a single cell and have to go from there to a complicated array of multiple tissues. For organisms like insects or frogs, that process is pretty easy to study, since development ...