NATIONAL CENTER FOR MICROSCOPY AND IMAGING RESEARCH

Project title Support of and Extensions to the Cell Image Library Funding Funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number 2R01GM082949 About The Cell This library is a public and easily accessible resource database of images, videos, and animations of cells, capturing a wide diversity of organisms, cell types, and cellular processes. The purpose of this database is to advance research on cellular activity, with the ultimate goal of improving human health. Cells, the building blocks of tissues, undergo dramatic dynamic rearrangements and changes in shape and motility during our lifetimes; abnormalities in these processes underlie numerous human diseases. It is important that scientists and clinicians fully appreciate the structure and dynamic behavior of cells, including cells from diverse organisms, to make advancements to human health. The Cell includes images acquired from historical and modern..

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