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Describe what you observed in your yeast wet-mount, direct stained slide, and indirectly stained slide.
A researcher has been given two CD4 T-cell clones from a collaborator. T-cell clone A is thought to be a Th17 clone specific for cytochrome C, and T-cell clone B is thought to be a Treg clone specif
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I'm a computer programmer deeply interested in Biology. I wish to write a computer simulation for cell differentiation. I understand there will be seemingly impossible challenges in doing this.
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When tired and it was dark, I noticed that if I focused on a dim light source and moved my eyes fairly rapidly sideways, the resulting images that lingered for a short while were not smoothly blurre