Organoid (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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An immature cluster of cells, or organoid (left) lacks the tissue architecture of a more mature organoid (right). Without this architecture, chromosomes (green) remain in a tangle for longer before snapping apart during cell division, and in some cases, individual chromosomes lag behind. Each movie condenses 210 seconds.

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K. Knouse et al./<i>Cell</i> 2018

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