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ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2014

The quantified cell.

Avi Flamholz, Rob Phillips, Ron Milo

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Bioenergetics and the Evolution of Cellular Traits.Annual review of biophysics · 2025
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  11. The bioenergetic landscape of cancer.Molecular metabolism · 2024
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  13. Mitochondrial uncoupling proteins protect human airway epithelial ciliated cells from oxidative damage.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  14. Vitamin BScience advances · 2023
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  17. Eukaryotic gene regulation at equilibrium, or non?Current opinion in systems biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Avi FlamholzDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Rob PhillipsDepartment of Applied Physics and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Ron MiloDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel ron.milo@weizmann.ac.il.

Funding

THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF CELL FUNCTIONT32GM007232 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BILDER, DAVID, UNAL, ELCIN · 1985 to 2022
$36.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007232
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The microscopic world of a cell can be as alien to our human-centered intuition as the confinement of quarks within protons or the event horizon of a black hole. We are prone to thinking by analogy-Golgi cisternae stack like pancakes, red blood cells look like donuts-but very little in our human experience is truly comparable to the immensely crowded, membrane-subdivided interior of a eukaryotic cell or the intricately layered structures of a mammalian tissue. So in our daily efforts to understand how cells work, we are faced with a challenge: how do we develop intuition that works at the microscopic scale?

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Actin CytoskeletonActinsAdenosine TriphosphateAnimalsCell MovementEukaryotic CellsHumansModels, BiologicalMolecular WeightPolymerizationRNA, MessengerActinsAdenosine TriphosphateRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID25368429
PMCPMC4230611

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