title: Visualizing blood cell emergence from aortic endothelium.
abstract: Three recent Nature papers use time-lapse confocal imaging to visualize the birth of blood cells from the aortic endothelium. Two studies (Bertrand et al., 2010; Kissa and Herbomel, 2010) utilize the zebrafish embryo, while the third (Boisset et al., 2010) develops a novel technique to image the mouse aorta.
authors.affiliation: MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK.
authors.forename: Gemma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Swiers
authors.affiliation: Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: nancyas@exchange.upenn.edu.
authors.forename: Nancy A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Speck
authors.affiliation: MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK. Electronic address: marella.debruijn@imm.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Marella F T R
authors.initials: MFTR
authors.lastname: de Bruijn