This is a cool video from a textbook publisher (Molecular Biology of the Cell, a very good text) illustrating how Spemann/Mangold's famous organizer experiment was done.
Also cool: those are apparently Edward De Robertis' hands doing the experiment.
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oh wow, cool!!!
Awesome! I will show this in my AP Bio class.