Developmental timeline

TS1 (fertilized egg) → P56 (adult) · click a stage to load samples

TS17

E10.5· Hindlimb buds

Forelimb paddle-shaped, hindlimb appears. Branchial arches IV. Lung buds emerge.

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OPT · 3Optical Projection Tomography — a 3D scan of a chemically cleared embryo, captured by rotating it through 360° in a wide-field microscope. Isotropic voxels; raw bg = dark, tissue = bright. sci-RNA-seq3 · 1sci-RNA-seq3 — high-throughput single-nucleus combinatorial-indexing RNA-seq (Shendure lab). The OMG mouse prenatal time-lapse profiled 11.4M nuclei across 45 developmental bins from E8 to P0 with this protocol.
Kaufman atlas, EMAPA-annotated · scroll →
scRNA-seq · Literature · Predictions — coming soon
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Forelimb buds

Karl Theiler's staging system (1972) partitions prenatal development into 28 morphologically distinct steps. Virtual Embryo aligns all imagery, anatomy, and future spatial transcriptomics data to this axis.

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Forelimb handplate
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