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At a recent seminar, HHMI investigator Larry Goldstein flashed a slide of Godzilla, the monster of Japanese sci-fi, towering over a cityscape, devouring a string of railroad cars. The next slide showed Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian, bedecked in fur loincloth and sword, muscles bulging. Goldstein's point was to remind his audience that size matters: An organism's size can impose some daunting challenges on the cells it contains. continued...
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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
Winter 2005, pages 14-18.
©2005 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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