Planets or cells? (IMAGE)

Center for Genomic Regulation

Planets or cells?

Caption

A region of a mouse ovary, made transparent so its depths can be seen at once. Each bright sphere is one of the roughly 5,000 egg cells a mouse is born with and will ever have

Credit

Montserrat Coll Lladó, Arturo D'Angelo/Centro de Regulación Genómica and EMBL Barcelona

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License

CC BY

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