#microcomputed tomography

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If you’re thinking ‘Hey that looks like microcomputed tomography of an Asian gecko inside a 7mm egg’, well … you’d be spot on.

Photograph: Ekaterina Strounina

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

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Mother’s Bugs

This study in mice demonstrates that the maternal microbiome promotes the growth of the placenta and its blood vessels. This image shows reconstructions made using micro-computed tomography of foetal-placental arteries

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Geoffrey N. Pronovost and colleagues

Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, October 2023

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