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Your Textbooks Are Wrong, This Is What Cells Actually Look Like
Nov 24, 2019
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You probably remember being taught about the cell in your high school biology class—learning the cell structure, labeling the membrane, the nucleus, and the cytoplasm.

But it turns out, what we’ve learned from our biology textbooks is likely an oversimplification, and biologists at research organizations like the Allen Institute for Cell Science are working to take a more integrated and holistic view to better understand the cell and all its complexities.

We are in a new era of cell biology. For centuries, microscopes have illuminated previously invisible worlds, and the recent advancements in microscopy are no different. Breakthrough laser microscopes are not only allowing biologists to image a cell in three dimensions, but also providing the opportunity to reveal hidden patterns inside of living cells.

Find out more about this new microscopy technology capturing cells like never before and what this could mean for the next decade of cell biology on this episode of Focal Point.

My latest hobby is microscopy and I'm enjoying hell out of it, just looking at microorganisms captured from my lawn. There's an entire micro-universe on us, inside us and throughout our environment.

This video is over two years old and I would love to hear more about their recent progress.

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