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The modern field of cell biology was born in the 1950s when Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research applied the electron microscope to living cells, opening to view a world far more complex and intricately regulated than any had anticipated. From their work, we now […]

The modern field of cell biology was born in the 1950s when Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research applied the electron microscope to living cells, opening to view a world far more complex and intricately regulated than any had anticipated. From their work, we now understand that the cell contains numerous distinct components, called organelles, where discrete cellular functions are centralized, and each protein produced inside the cell is uniquely assigned, like a worker drone, to a particular organelle. The question that…

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