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Microscopic embryonic mouse brain (DAPI, GFP)

20x microscopic image of a coronal section of an embryonic mouse brain.

 

The tissue was stained with DAPI which interacts with DNA. So every blue oval-circular object is a cell nuclei (that is where most of the DNA is kept)

 

Some cells were transfected with a plasmid containing a sea jelly (jellyfish) gene which fluoresces green with the correct wavelength of light. This was used to look at stem cells and their descendants at a specific time point.

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Uploaded on February 16, 2012
Taken on February 15, 2012