Robert Hooke had coined the word “cell”—short for cellula, or “small compartment” in Latin—in the mid-17th century, after he’d seen tiny rectangular shapes while studying slices of cork using a ...

I first summarize the essence of the theory of self-organization in physico-chemical systems in simple terms. I then show how this concretely applies to some examples of cell organization and ...

But surveying the history of visualization techniques from ... of the sea urchin egg as a way of teaching medical students cell theory. Julius Ries, maker of one of the first of these films ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell ... gap in his theory of ...

But how did we go from the days of one giant landline monopoly to four competitive cell companies ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at ...