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How to make a fish face, and other photo contest winners

Winning imaging technique allows geneticists to study development at cellular level

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FISH FACE Geneticist Oscar Ruiz snapped this photo of a 4-day-old zebrafish embryo. The image won first place in the 2016 Nikon Small World contest.

O. Ruiz/Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

By Emily DeMarco

- More than 2 years ago

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This forlorn-looking face of a 4-day-old zebrafish embryo represents “a whole new avenue of research” for geneticist Oscar Ruiz, who studies how faces and facial abnormalities develop at the cellular level.