Drosophila larva (VIDEO)

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The researchers also captured high-resolution dynamic images of a beating heart in a living drosophila larva, which is an important model organism for studying heart disease. For this, they used a beam that was 700 microns long and 8 microns in diameter to visualize organ structure over a long depth range.

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Jingjing Zhao, Stanford University School of Medicine

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