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What am I looking at? These images show a single cell in the middle dividing into two so-called daughter cells.The stage of the cell division process represented here is called anaphase. In these ...

What am I looking at? This is an image of a group of pain receptor neurons that was grown in culture from stem cells.The green marks the cell bodies and projections of the neurons (1). The blue ...

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Igor Siwanowicz is a research scientist at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. He earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute in Germany in structural biochemistry, but his love for animals and nature, as ...

Cell division is the process of a single cell turning into two nearly identical copies of itself. To do this, the original cell needs to make copies of all its cellular components, including its DNA.

HHMI recognizes the transition to open science is a global endeavor that requires the actions of many organizations and individuals. For this reason, HHMI partners with several initiatives that are ...

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