image: A French and Spanish interdisciplinary team gathering mathematicians, physicists and developmental biologists performed non-linear microscopy imaging of unlabelled zebrafish early embryos and the algorithmic detection and tracking of cells and cell divisions until the 1000-cell stage. Measurements precision and accuracy unattained so far allowed analyzing the phenomenology of cell division and the calculation of a prototypic embryo for a cohort of 6 different individuals. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Aug. 20, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Nicolas Olivier of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, and colleagues was titled, "Cell Lineage Reconstruction of Early Zebrafish Embryos Using Label-Free Nonlinear Microscopy." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of courtesy of M. Olivier, M. Luengo-Oroz, L. Duloquin, E. Daure, T. Savy, I. Veilleux, X. Solinas, D. Debarre, P. Bourgine, A. Santos, N. Peyrieras and E. Beaurepaire