{"id":196307,"date":"2024-09-17T15:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/watch-mesmerizing-video-of-weird-waves-that-shape-life-itself-inside-a-fly-embryo"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T20:23:46","slug":"watch-mesmerizing-video-of-weird-waves-that-shape-life-itself-inside-a-fly-embryo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/watch-mesmerizing-video-of-weird-waves-that-shape-life-itself-inside-a-fly-embryo","title":{"rendered":"Watch mesmerizing video of weird waves that \u2018shape life itself\u2019 inside a fly embryo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-mesmerizing-video-of-weird-waves-that-shape-life-itself-inside-a-fly-embryo3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mesmerizing microscopic footage showing \u201cwaves\u201d inside a developing fly embryo has won the 14th annual <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/galleries\/small-world-in-motion\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/galleries\/small-world-in-motion\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Nikon Small World in Motion<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cmitotic waves\u201d occur during cell division as tissue forms and moves in the embryo of a fruit fly (<em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>). Understanding this biological process in flies could help reveal the forces that build embryos across the animal kingdom. Many of these fundamental processes can go awry in humans, leading to neurological disorders, congenital defects and cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesmerizing microscopic footage showing \u201cwaves\u201d inside a developing fly embryo has won the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition. These \u201cmitotic waves\u201d occur during cell division as tissue forms and moves in the embryo of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Understanding this biological process in flies could help reveal the forces that build [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}