John Bailey, Andrew Lilja, John Mcghee (3d Va Lab, University Of New South Wales)
EVER since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the vast world within our bodies and have long dreamed about what it would be like to shrink myself down and explore the inside of a human cell at the microscopic level. It turns out I’m not alone: biologists are trying to do exactly that – and you and I can help them.
Just as the human body contains organs that perform different functions, our cells have various structures and pieces of molecular machinery called organelles. Examples of organelles are the nucleus, where DNA is stored, and the mitochondria,…
