{"id":22509,"date":"2020-04-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/?p=22509"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:47:10","slug":"potw2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/picture-of-the-week\/potw2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazing at healing wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What may look like a branch of a tree with the first flower buds emerging after winter are, in fact, tracheal cells of a fruit fly larva and their nuclei. For decades, scientists have been using the fruit fly <em>Drosophila <\/em>to understand biological processes; 60% of fruit fly genes have been conserved throughout evolution and are also present in humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former EMBL Heidelberg researchers Parisa Kakanj, together with colleagues from the Institute for Genetics of the University of Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, and the CECAD and CMMC in Cologne, developed a new method to study molecular interactions in living fruit fly larvae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parisa then used this method to study wound healing. To create this particular image visual artist Mona Kakanj, who is also Parisa\u2019s sister, used a snapshot from a time-lapse video Parisa created for her study on <em>Drosophila<\/em> larvae and edited it in Photoshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the image the plasma membrane and cytoplasm of the larval tracheal cells appear in green and the nuclei appear in magenta. 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