The Croonian lecture 2006 Structure of the living cell

The smallest viable unit of life is a single cell. To understand life, we need to visualize the structure of the cell as well as all cellular components and their complexes. This is a formidable task that requires sophisticated tools. These have developed from the rudimentary early microscopes of 35...

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Autor principal: Campbell, Iain D
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2007
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17255009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.1960
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description The smallest viable unit of life is a single cell. To understand life, we need to visualize the structure of the cell as well as all cellular components and their complexes. This is a formidable task that requires sophisticated tools. These have developed from the rudimentary early microscopes of 350 years ago to a toolbox that includes electron microscopes, synchrotrons, high magnetic fields and vast computing power. This lecture briefly reviews the development of biophysical tools and illustrates how they begin to unravel the ‘molecular logic of the living state’.
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spelling pubmed-19552302008-12-29 The Croonian lecture 2006 Structure of the living cell Campbell, Iain D Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Review The smallest viable unit of life is a single cell. To understand life, we need to visualize the structure of the cell as well as all cellular components and their complexes. This is a formidable task that requires sophisticated tools. These have developed from the rudimentary early microscopes of 350 years ago to a toolbox that includes electron microscopes, synchrotrons, high magnetic fields and vast computing power. This lecture briefly reviews the development of biophysical tools and illustrates how they begin to unravel the ‘molecular logic of the living state’. The Royal Society 2007-01-24 2008-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC1955230/ /pubmed/17255009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2006.1960 Text en Copyright © 2007 The Royal Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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