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Blood vessels in a mouse brain

Stall Catchers citizen scientist Blood vessels in a mouse brain

In Stall Catchers, you look at ‘movies’ of blood vessels that have been acquired from using a fluorescence microscopic imaging technique at Cornell University. In each movie, you analyse a single blood vessel highlighted in an orange outline to determine if the blood flow has stalled.

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Rights: Cornell University and Human Computation Institute, CC BY-SA 4.0
Published: 16 May 2019Size: 216.13 KB
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