Xenopus Frog Eggs (IMAGE)

Stanford Medicine

Xenopus Frog Eggs

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After being scrambled, the cytoplasm of Xenopus frog eggs spontaneously reorganizes into cell-like compartments. Nuclei are blue; microtubules are green; the endoplasmic reticulum is red.

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Xianrui Cheng

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