The quantified cell

Avi Flamholz; Rob Phillips; Ron Milo

doi:https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E14-09-1347

The quantified cell

Avi Flamholz, Rob Phillips, Ron Milo

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Abstract

The microscopic world of a cell can be as alien to our human-centered intuition as the confinement of quarks within protons or the event horizon of a black hole. We are prone to thinking by analogy - Golgi cisternae stack like pancakes, red blood cells look like donuts - but very little in our human experience is truly comparable to the immensely crowded, membrane-subdivided interior of a eukaryotic cell or the intricately layered structures of a mammalian tissue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3497-3500
Number of pages	4
Journal	Molecular Biology of the Cell
Volume	25
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E14-09-1347
State	Published - 5 Nov 2014

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Molecular Biology
Cell Biology

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