Touchy Origins (IMAGE)

Columbia University

Touchy Origins

Caption

The fluorescent-green features in this micrograph of the hairy skin of a mouse’s back reveals the presence of tactile sensory cells in the Mrgprb4 cell lineage.

Credit

Abdus-Saboor Lab/Zuckerman Institute

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