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Meet Your Microbiome
Give Heart Cells a Beat

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.

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Cells to Self, Exhibits

Are Your Cells You?

Published:   October 25, 2019
Total Running Time:   00:03:52
You become who you are through a complicated interplay of DNA and other factors, such as the conditions in your...
Cells to Self

Is It Genetic? Cells to Self

Published:   October 2, 2019
Total Running Time:   00:01:14
Cells to Self

Seeing Scientifically

Published:   September 4, 2018
Total Running Time:   00:03:00
Cells to Self

Meet Your Microbiome

Published:   August 21, 2018
Total Running Time:   00:38:00
Cells to Self, Exhibits

Give Heart Cells a Beat

Published:   March 21, 2018
Total Running Time:   00:07:00

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Microscope Imaging Station

Microscope Imaging Station

Visitors to the Microscope Imaging Station can control research-grade microscopes to examine various living specimens.

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Traits of Life

Traits of Life

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.

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