Watch the First 24 Hours of Life

Have you ever wondered how life begins? Well, wonder no more. Now you can watch a video that shows you the first 24 hours of an embryo:

For the first time, it is possible to actually watch the initial 24 hours of the life of an embryo at the cellular level.

With a newly developed microscope that uses a sheet of light to scan a living organism from many different dimensions, scientists were able to track the complex cellular organization of a zebrafish embryo as it grows from a single cell to 20,000 cells.

This is interesting since the first 24 hours of an embryo is a stage where it’s still too small to be observed (normally). Thanks to the new technology though, it has now become a reality.

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