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    Cell-like compartments from frog eggs 6

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    Cell-like compartments that spontaneously emerged from scrambled frog eggs, with nuclei (blue) from frog sperm. Endoplasmic reticulum (red) and microtubules (green) are also visible. Image created using confocal microscopy.

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    Internal NoteFrog sperm nuclei were added to these egg extracts to provide a source of nuclei, but they are not required for compartment formation. Sperm nuclei-containing compartments can divide repeatedly to produce more compartments like cells in an embryo. Shown in blue are the nuclei, visualized by the fluorescent protein mCherry-NLS. Shown in red is the endoplasmic reticulum, stained by the ER-Tracker dye. Shown in green are the microtubules, visualized by SiR-tubulin stain. The image was acquired on a Nikon Eclipse-TI inverted spinning disk confocal microscope with a 20x objective. It captures a 1.04 mm by 0.66 mm rectangular region. News coverage: Stanford Medicine press release, Quanta Magazine, Stanford Scope Blog
    Keywordsstructure
    SourceXianrui Cheng, Stanford University School of Medicine.
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    Credit LineXianrui Cheng, Stanford University School of Medicine. Xianrui Cheng, James E. Ferrell Jr. SCIENCE 366: 631, 01 Nov 2019 (DOI: 10.1126/science.aav7793)
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    Record TypePhotograph
    Topic Area(s);#Cells;#Tools and Techniques;#
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