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06 May 2026
Larvae Lock
Transparent and fast growing – those are just two of the many features that make zebrafish embryos and larvae attractive model organisms for biomedical research. They're often studied live at high-resolution, but the way they're currently mounted in agarose jelly has drawbacks. Here, fused deposition modelling – a 3D printing process – has been applied to create customisable moulds to hold the larvae, enabling stable live-imaging over time (brain vessel development seen in this video)
Read the published research article here
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- Video from work by Marcela Xiomara Rivera Pineda, Jaakko Lehtimäki & Guillaume Jacquemet
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Cell Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Biology Open, April 2026
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