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Graphics software for microscope imagery lights up the endoplasmic reticulum
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Mapping the Secret Lives of Human Cells
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The Allen Institute for Cell Science today announces the launch of the Allen Cell Explorer: a one-of-a-kind portal and dynamic digital window into the human cell.
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Graham Johnson is an artist with a curious muse: the human cell. He’s the Matisse of mitochondria, the Goya of the Golgi apparatus.
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