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Digital blueprint for fish created

By Rowan Hooper and Simon David

10 October 2008

Video: Digital zebrafish embryo shows how the cells develop over the first 24 hours of a fish’s life

Scientists have created the first digital “blueprint” for a vertebrate, by tracking all the cells in a zebrafish embryo for the first 24 hours after fertilisation. This was then encoded to make a 3D computer model.

Watch exclusive video of the digital embryo in full size

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