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July 2, 2012 01:42 pm PDT
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The beginning of life
Sea urchin egg undergoing mitosis with fluorescent-tagged/stained DNA (blue), microtubules (green). Cells divide. One single piece of life tugs itself apart and splits in two. It sounds like a purely destructive process, reminiscent of medieval woodcuts where the hands and feet of some unfortunate thief are tied to horses heading in opposite directions. But that's [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pGJasPiYEVg/the-beginning-of-life.html
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