Side View Blue Crypts (IMAGE)

University of North Carolina Health Care

Side View Blue Crypts

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These are fluorescent images of the side view of two synthetic crypts. Blue: nuclei of the cells. Red: proliferating stem cells in similar location to those in the human colon.

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Scott Magness, PhD, UNC School of Medicine

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