Scientists need to redraw picture of cell’s biggest organelle
Super-resolution microscopy reveals surprising details of endoplasmic reticulum’s architecture

CELLULAR SURPRISE Super-resolution imaging of the endoplasmic reticulum, a multifaceted organelle within the cell, shows that it’s a tangled web of interconnected tubes, instead of containing flat sheets as previously believed.
J. Nixon-Abell et al/Science 2016
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