Cells in a ~5 hour-old zebrafish embryo. The cell membranes are labeled in red. The green dots are clumps of a signaling protein called FGF8 that has been fused to a green fluorescent protein.

See this Flash article for more info on zebrafish: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2012/issue120/

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