Historical Perspective abstract
Nature Cell Biology 1, E13 - E15 (1999)
doi:10.1038/8964
A unifying concept: the history of cell theory
Paolo Mazzarello1
Abstract
After 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.
- Paolo Mazzarello is in the Istituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica – CNR, Via Abbiategrasso 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Correspondence to: Paolo Mazzarello1 e-mail: mazzarello@igbe.pv.cnr.it
