Think of it as Google Earth for life itself. An entire zebrafish embryo has been mapped down to nanometre resolution, using a new processing technique which combines thousands of electron microscope slides to form a highly detailed image.
A team from Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands built the "virtual slide", using automated image capture and stitching software to combine more than 26000 images into one cohesive picture.
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