At a certain point in the fruit fly's development, skin cells on the embryo's back must stretch over a gap, to close it. This is called dorsal closure, and scientists study it to understand wound-healing, which is similar.

By taking more pictures per minute, researchers at EMBL increased the time resolution of films like this, and discovered that dorsal closure doesn't happen the way scientists thought.

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