Researchers from UC3M Monitor a Chicken's Brain (IMAGE)

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Researchers from UC3M Monitor a Chicken's Brain

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This is an X-ray computed tomography scan of a chicken embryo skeleton inside its egg (in grayscale), together with the functional image of positrons representing, in color, the capture of glucose in the spinal cord, in the brain stem and in the embryo's brain. This image was created live.

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UC3M

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