Indeed, the development of light microscopy was essential to man's discovery of cells. Don't be lulled by familiar schematic drawings of oval-shaped cells, either. Real cells are three-dimensional ...

Yet, this is the goal of biology at the molecular level — to understand the collaborative functioning of the elements as being part of a system that forms a cell, a tissue, even an organism.

These have largely used next-generation sequencing approaches to provide a snapshot of the type and abundance of species in these microbial communities, drawing relationships ... applying synthetic ...