image: 3-D reconstructions of a human embryo at 9.5 pregnancy weeks (15.9 mm in length) are shown. From left to right the skin, cardiovascular system, skeleton and all reconstructed organs are presented. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 25, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.S. de Bakker at Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "An interactive three-dimensional digital atlas and quantitative database of human development." view more
Credit: Bernadette de Bakker, MD of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands