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Article: Chemical shifts.(research of cells (Biology))(reports of medical research)(research of plasma desorption mass spectrometry)(research of hydrogen bonds)
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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A Polymer Home for Wandering Cells
In the 1660s, when the 28-year-old Robert Hooke looked through one of the first microscopes, he found, to his surprise, that plant tissue was divided up into little units. They reminded him of monk's chambers (it: cellula) and he called these units "cells." The manipulation of cells has since become an occupation of many scientists, and was the motivation behind recent work published by Natasha Patrito, MCIC, Claire McCague, MCIC, Swanda Chiang, and their supervisor Peter Norton, FCIC (all of The University of Western Ontario), and their collaborator Nils Petersen, FCIC (National Institute for Nanotechnology).
In two ...