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Mapping Human Genetic Variation

Golden Gene Chips

Nuclear Gatekeepers

Structure formed by a plant pathogen protein. Courtesy of Ken Schwinn and Sonia Espejon-Reynes, New York SGX Research Center for Structural Genomics.

Courtesy of pathologist Richard Klemke of the University of California, San Diego.

Multicolor STORM. Courtesy of chemist Xiaowei Zhuang of Harvard University.

Folate in the Making

Mapping Disease Spread

Bacteria Working to Eat

Fly Cells Live

Planting Roots

Fruitful Dyes

Color-coded chromosomes

Motion in the Brain

Neural Tube Development

Cholesterol and Huntington's Disease

Repairing DNA

Neural Development

Cellular Polarity

Cellular Metropolis

Microtubule Breakdown

Gene Silencing

Genetic Imprinting

Tiny Points of Light

Beaded Bacteriophage

Cellular Traffic

Worms and Human Infertility

Snow World

Natural Nanomachine in Action

Mapping Brain Differences

Colorful Communication

Statistical Cartography

Modeling Disease Spread

Cells Frozen in Time

Canine Kidney Cells Aglow

Nano-Rainbow

Finding One Bug

Movements of Myosin

Mapping Metabolic Activity