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23 June 2026
The Big Cell
An organism composed of one giant (relatively speaking of course) cell – this one is Stentor which can be as big as 2mm – is the perfect model for spying on the formation of any cell's inner structures. Researchers even performed microsurgery on Stentor as they discovered different genes are active in locations across the cell to bring about the various structures and their functions
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Ashley R. Albright and colleagues
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), April 2026
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