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Caption: This is a confocal micrograph of a primary human fibroblast cell grown in culture stained blue for actin, a highly abundant protein that makes up the cytoskeleton of cells. Energy-producing mitochondria are shown in green.
Credit: Image courtesy of Matthew Daniels, University of Oxford and Wellcome Images.
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