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Meet Your Microbiome
Give Heart Cells a Beat
BioFutures | Alysson Muotri | Growing Brain Organoids in the Lab
Cells can move, communicate, and sense and respond to their surroundings. Get a look at how cells do what they do, and how genetics and the environment create your unique human self.
Cells to Self Episodes
Published: February 10, 2020
Total Running Time: 00:55:38
Published: January 9, 2020
Total Running Time: 00:01:00
Published: October 25, 2019
Total Running Time: 00:03:52
Published: March 21, 2018
Total Running Time: 00:07:00
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Visitors to the Microscope Imaging Station can control research-grade microscopes to examine various living specimens.
What are the essential elements of life? How can you distinguish between the living and nonliving world? Exploratorium visitors explored these questions and more when our Life Science exhibit collection, Traits of Life opened to the public in 2002.
