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The Croonian lecture 2006 Structure of the living cell

Author(s) -

Iain D. Campbell

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1471-2970

pISSN - 0962-8436

DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2006.1960

Subject(s) - toolbox , living cell , computer science , cell structure , task (project management) , nanotechnology , biology , engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , programming language , systems engineering , materials science

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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