Developmental Biology in the Era of AI The Virtual Embryo
The Virtual Embryo
Moonshot
Solve all congenital diseases.
1,129
Data items
28
Theiler stages
72
3D reconstructions
1,033
Annotated sections
Developmental timeline
Jump to a stage
Predictive model
The embryo, predicted in 3D
Spatiotemporal · E7.8 → E12.5
3D morphogenesis movie
A spatial-transcriptomic reconstruction of mouse embryogenesis across ten timepoints — cell types and marker-gene expression rendered cell-by-cell in 3D.
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Interactive reference models
OME-NGFF–backed volumes, streamed on demand. Orbit, slice, and compare across Theiler stages.
Deep-zoom histology
IIIF tiles behind every Kaufman plate, with EMAPA annotations overlaid as Web Annotations.
Programmatic & agent-ready
Open REST + MCP endpoints. Query the atlas from notebooks, pipelines, or LLM agents.