anatomy
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Super-Resolution Microscopes
Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells in human tissues, and observe “animalcules”-bacteria and protists-in the water of a lake. Increasingly powerful light microscopes followed, revealing cell organelles like the nucleus and… Read more
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Understanding the Heart: Myths, Science, and Modern Medicine
If the heart could speak, it would probably ask for a break. Beating more than 100,000 times a day, every day, it quietly powers everything we do. For most of human history, however, people had no idea what the heart actually did. They just knew it was important. From superstition and spirituality to science and… Read more
