This 'morphing' movie shows the changes undergone by a mid-sagittal section of a human embryo from stage 13 to stage 23.

The MORPH movie was produced by C. Paidas, G. Hutchins and R. Moreale at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Section of Surgical Sciences, Division of Pediatric Surgery and the Department of Pathology in Baltimore, Maryland. It is provided here with the kind permission of the authors. For details of the method used to produce the video please refer to: Paidas, C.N., Moreale, R.F., Holoski, K.M., Lund, R.E., and Hutchins, G.M. (1999) Septation and differentiation of the embryonic human cloaca. J Ped. Surg. 34: 877 - 884

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