Nature Cell Biology
1, E13 - E15 (1999)
doi:10.1038/8964
A unifying concept: the history of cell theoryPaolo Mazzarello
Paolo Mazzarello is in the Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica − CNR, Via Abbiategrasso 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Correspondence should be addressed to Paolo Mazzarello mazzarello@igbe.pv.cnr.itAfter the first observations of life under the microscope, it took two
centuries of research before the 'cell theory', the idea that all living things
are composed of cells or their products, was formulated. It proved even harder
to accept that individual cells also make up nervous tissue.
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