Name: Conception to birth -- visualized
Uploaded: 2011-11-14T16:34:40Z
Duration: 9 min 20 s
Description: Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

Conception to birth -- visualized

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

The development of a human being, from a single fertilized cell to a complex organism, reveals breathtaking complexity and order. High-resolution scanning technology captured how, in just weeks, cells multiply at a million per second, forming organs, 60,000 miles of vessels, and a brain that folds itself to hold memory. Even collagen fibers twist into intricate structures, changing only in the cornea to give vision. These discoveries highlight biological mechanisms so precise and mysterious that they seem almost divine.

The Human Body Unfolds With Unimaginable Precision From Two Cells

*From Conception to Birth*

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