Kaeli Ficco examines a seedling under the microscope (IMAGE)

Princeton University, Engineering School

Kaeli Ficco examines a seedling under the microscope

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Kaeli Ficco, now a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, developed some of the study’s experimental methods as part of her senior thesis. Here, she examines an Arabidopsis seedling engineered to express a reporter gene that produces a blue color when immune responses are activated.

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