In Becoming, a time-lapse film by Jan van IJken (previously), a single cell splits. Then it splits again, and again, and again, morphing and quivering as new quadrants continually appear and divide. The cell belongs to an alpine newt, and during most of its transition from a single cell zygote to hatched larva it looksContinue reading "An Extraordinary Time-Lapse Captures the Microscopic Development of a Single Cell into a Newt"