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Science 3 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5765, pp. 1232 - 1234
DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5765.1232
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Great Balls of Fat

Mary Beckman

Lipid droplets, long-ignored globules inside cells, are earning recognition as possible organelles involved in cholesterol synthesis and much more. (Read more.)

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