Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee still remembers the first cell he cultured: It was an immune cell from a mouse, and he had grown it in a petri dish. As he examined it through a microscope, the cell moved, ...
From the bizarre creatures in the depths of the oceans to the bacteria inside our bodies, all life on Earth consists of cells. But we have only a very rough idea of how even the simplest of those ...
Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...
From plants and bacteria to animals and humans, our world is filled with many living things. In fact, there are approximately 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, and only 1.2 ...
Rhodes scholar, renowned oncologist, contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Emperor of All Maladies” and bestselling “The Gene.” Just 52, ...
This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Alex Ossola: The neurons in your brain, bacteria that causes strep throat and the ...
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ON 25 July 1978, Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in the UK. The first child to be born following IVF, she was called a miracle baby by some, a test-tube baby by others, and a ...
It was by accident that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch cloth merchant, first saw a living cell. He’d begun making magnifying lenses at home, perhaps to better judge the quality of his cloth. One day, ...