Grounded (VIDEO)

Rockefeller University

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This live footage of transparent C. elegans embryos shows how a developing sensory neuron gets its shape. After the neuron drops anchor at the tip of the worm’s nose, the cell body crawls away, stretching the dendrite out behind it as it goes.

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The Rockefeller University

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