Cell contraction drive the initial shaping of human embryos (IMAGE)

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Cell contraction drive the initial shaping of human embryos

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Human embryo at the 4-cell stage. Cell DNA appears in red and their actin cytoskeleton in blue. The cell on the right has just split its genome into two and is about to divide.

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© Julie Firmin et Jean-Léon Maître

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