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Lifechips student Amanda Janesick's rearch interview with a local paper

Life through a microscope

Life through a microscope

Text taken from the image: images like this help advance the understanding of such development disorders as DiGeorge Syndrome, a congenital disease that typically affects a person’s face and heart. Developmental biologist Bruce Blumberg is showing the expression of the Tbx-1 gene in the head region of a frog embryo. He’s studying how Tbx-1 expression regulates development of the sonsry organs. The loss of Tbx-1 expression can result in DiGeorge Syndrome in human.

Credits: Text by Gary Robbins, Image by Bruce Blumberg lab