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Like A Tiny Dancer

THE UPPER DIGESTIVE SYSTEM of a 2-day-old fruitfly larva bears a resemblance to graceful human anatomy in this image by Postdoctoral Fellow O’Neil Guthrie in the Daniel Kiehart lab. Guthrie was searching for the fly’s salivary gland under a scanning confocal microscope and “I found this human-like structure (with a head, body and arms) and decided to capture it.” Blue dye indicates DNA, red marks the nuclear lamin, an envelope of protein that surrounds the nucleus of a cell, and green is a structural protein called actin.

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