This from Wired
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.
“Imagine following all inhabitants of a town over the course of one day using a telescope in space,” Philipp Keller of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, said in a press release.
This is one case where science is on the side of life. The more we know, the more we see, the more undeniable life becomes.
October 10, 2008 at 3:27 am
It truly is a miracle. Wow! Thank God for science, huh?