Gallery: Massive 3-D Cell Library Teaches Computers How to Find Mitochondria
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Volumetric renderings of single human stem cells, from the 3-D Cell Viewer library.
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Microtubules (yellow) arrange themselves as the cell gets ready to divide.
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One hundred cells from the Allen Cell Explorer show off their variability.
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Scientists tagged the nuclear membrane of this cell with a green fluorescent protein using Crispr.
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In this dividing cell the microtubules (red) have already formed spindles around the nucleus.
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