Virtual Embryo Atlas

Developmental timeline

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

Timeline Modality

E0

E2

E4

E6

E8

E10

E12

E14

E16

E18

Birth

E0E5E10E15BirthP7P56

TS9

E6.5· Streak — gastrulation begins

Primitive streak forms at the posterior. Mesoderm and definitive endoderm ingress.

1samples

1/1anatomy delineated

histology · 1Histology — embryo physically embedded and microtomed into 1–7 µm sections, stained (Nissl / H&E), imaged, and reassembled into a 3D volume. High in-plane resolution, anisotropic voxels.

3D reference models

Histology plates · 15

Kaufman atlas, EMAPA-annotated · scroll →

scRNA-seq · Literature · Predictions — coming soon

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Prestreak

About Theiler staging

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.

Amnion forms

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