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Incredible, unique video of an embryo forming – that scientists hope will solve medical mysteries

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For the first time ever, scientists have recorded real-time video of an early-stage embryo forming the 'neural tube' that will grow into its brain and spinal cord (above). An innovative technique using fluorescent protein was used to illuminate this tiny embryo

Scientists have captured the first ever early stage of embryo formation, which could help solve the ‘mystery’ of how birth defects develop in humans. Australian researchers watched in amazement as the cells of a quail embryo crawled around a protein-based support structure, organising themselves into the earliest form of the heart and the first stage … Read more

NASA’s Webb captures celestial fireworks around forming star

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L1527 and Protostar (MIRI image). Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute The cosmos seems to come to life with a crackling explosion of pyrotechnics in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Taken with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), this fiery hourglass marks the scene of a very young object in the process of becoming … Read more

Galaxies actively forming in the early universe feed on cold gas

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Researchers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified three galaxies that may have been actively forming when the universe was just 400 to 600 million years old. Webb’s data shows that these galaxies are surrounded by gas that the researchers suspect is composed almost exclusively of hydrogen and helium, the earliest elements … Read more