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Scientists from the University of Queensland created a genetically engineered quail embryo that formed while also producing a reflective fluorescent protein called Lifeact.
The glow of these fluorescent proteins revealed the embryo's early protein scaffolding called the 'actin cytoskeleton' - which gives its cells a shape to cling to and helps them move.
The development of many major organs including the heart and the neural tube (which goes on to form the brain and spinal cord) is very similar to a human at the time the human embryo implants in the womb.
Researchers plan to study in real-time what early missteps by these embryonic cells lead to birth defects.
Dr White and her team's work was published this June in the Journal of Cell Biology .
'We are very excited at the possibilities that this new quail model now offers to study development in real time,' the researcher said.
Dr White's team is now 'studying how mutations identified in patients or maternal factors (diabetes, nutritional deficits) disrupt this development and lead to congenital defects'.
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