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Studying Blood Cell and Vessel Development in Zebrafish

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Studying Blood Cell and Vessel Development in Zebrafish
Credit: Daniel Castranova, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Zebrafish are a useful model for studying the development of blood cells and blood vessels. This image shows blood cells (magenta) in blood vessels (yellow) on the yolk of an anesthetized, 2-day-old, transgenic zebrafish embryo, which is about the size of a grain of rice.
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