Just a few cell clones can make heart muscle
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
Just a handful of cells in the embryo are all that's needed to form the outer layer of pumping heart muscle in an adult zebrafish. Researchers used zebrafish embryos and careful employment of a new technique that allows for up to 90 color labels on different cells to track individual cells and cell lines as the heart formed.