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Also Known As ER • lace-like reticulum

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Diagram of the endoplasmic reticulum in a cell, showing the nuclear envelope connected to smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum, with ribosomes attached to the rough portion and labeled cisternae and cisternal space.
Endoplasmic reticulum; organelle
Color-enhanced electron micrograph showing yellow mitochondria and blue endoplasmic reticulum within magenta-stained hepatocyte liver cells at high magnification.
Illustration comparing three cell types: a round animal cell and an irregularly shaped plant cell, both showing labeled organelles, and an elongated bacteria cell with labeled structures such as flagella and capsule.
Side-by-side labeled diagrams of a typical animal cell and a plant cell, showing internal structures such as nucleus, mitochondrion, endoplasmic reticulum, and unique features like chloroplasts and cell wall in the plant cell.
The video thumbnail image shows an illustration of an animal cell next to a photo of a whale swimming in the oean.
How different parts of a cell interact
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Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
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Thomas Steitz
American biophysicist and biochemist
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Albert Claude
Belgian-American cytologist