Methods library · Genes and genomes
Lineage tracing
Also called fate mapping, clonal analysis, Brainbow, barcoding
Following all the descendants of a marked cell to learn what it gives rise to.
Watch Marking a Cell and Its Descendants · 2:35
A schematic drawn in code, narrated by an AI narrator voice (Gemini, Charon) reading narration written from the lesson's text. First made for the lesson Tools for Following Cells and Genes.
Where it is taught
24 lessons use this method.
Developmental Neuroscience
- Tools for Following Cells and Genes
- Neurulation and Neural Tube Defects
- Transcription Factor Codes: Building a Motor Neuron
- The Ventricular Zone: Radial Glia as Stem Cells
- Radial Migration: Climbing the Glial Ladder
- Tangential Migration: Interneurons and the Long Way Round
- The Neural Crest: Cells That Leave Home
- Choosing a Partner: Layers, Self-Avoidance and Smell
- The Death Machinery in Neurons
- Synapse Elimination: One Muscle Fiber, One Axon
- Where Glia Come From
- New Neurons in the Adult Brain