23 March 2024
Placental Peep Hole
An optical window implanted in the placenta of pregnant mice allows high-resolution photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging of the placenta as it develops throughout pregnancy. A means to directly view function and failings
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- Image from work by Xiaoyi Zhu, Qiang Huang and Laiming Jiang, and colleagues
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Image contributed by Junjie Yao and published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Published in and on the cover of Science Advances, March 2024
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