Mouse Embryo (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen

Mouse Embryo

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The picture shows a 9.5-day-old mouse embryo including extra-embryonic tissue. The red region marks embryonic stem cells in the extra-embryonic yolk sac. Embryonic stem cells are not normally able to do this, but when cells are pushed backwards in development as described in Morgani et al.

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Sophie Morgani, University of Copenhagen.

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