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Mitochondria look like red rods with fat droplets that are blue under an electron microscope.

February 9, 2018

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    Dr. Margaret Heitkemper discussed IBS, its relation to other disorders and an intervention that she developed in “Symptom Science in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Bench to Intervention,” the final NINR Director’s Lecture of 2017.
Mitochondria look like red rods with fat droplets that are blue under an electron microscope.

On the Cover

Mitochondria (red) in a mouse heart muscle and fat droplets (blue) as viewed under an electron microscope. February is American Heart Month.

Brian Glancy, NHLBI

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