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Nature 440, 730-733 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440730a; Published online 5 April 2006
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Professorship in Biotechnology with a Special Focus on Biopharmaceutical Technology
- University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna
- Vienna 1190 Austria
Canada Excellence Research Chair
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo Candada
Cell biology: The story of i
Claire Ainsworth1
- Claire Ainsworth is a senior reporter for Nature.
Abstract
Multicellular creatures can be battlegrounds for competing populations of cells. Claire Ainsworth learns how this way of looking at an individual is feeding into immunology and cancer biology.
"There are colonies of pelagic tunicates which have taken shape like the finger of a glove. Each member of the colony is an individual animal, but the colony is another individual animal, not at all like the sum of its individuals... So a man of individualistic reason, if he must ask, 'Which is the animal, the colony or the individual?
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