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Scrambled eggs
Golden-brown fragments of the liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) eggs after being disrupted on a bench top homogeniser with the aid of ceramic beads prior to DNA 'eggs'-traction. The eggs, which are notoriously hard to crack and even remain intact after freezing, are shown here under a light microscope suspended in lysis buffer. Complete disruption is an important precursor enabling access to the DNA within, ultimately allowing the development of a diagnostic workflow for detection of Fasciola-positive faecal samples. Calvani et al.
Image Credit: Calvani et al. (2017)
Citation: (2017) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 11(9) September 2017. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(9): ev11.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v11.i09
Published: September 29, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Calvani et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Golden-brown fragments of the liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) eggs after being disrupted on a bench top homogeniser with the aid of ceramic beads prior to DNA 'eggs'-traction. The eggs, which are notoriously hard to crack and even remain intact after freezing, are shown here under a light microscope suspended in lysis buffer. Complete disruption is an important precursor enabling access to the DNA within, ultimately allowing the development of a diagnostic workflow for detection of Fasciola-positive faecal samples. Calvani et al.
Image Credit: Calvani et al. (2017)