Recording every cell's history in real-time with evolving genetic barcodes
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
All humans begin life as a single cell that divides repeatedly to form two, then four, then eight cells, all the way up to the ~26 billion cells that make up a newborn. Tracing how and when those 26 billion cells arise from one zygote is the grand challenge of developmental biology, a field that has so far only been able to capture and analyze snapshots of the development process.