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The life unfolding inside your cells, revealed in 3D

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Gokul Upadhyayula |

TEDMED 2020

• March 2020

To understand how life works, you need to watch it in action, says bioimaging scientist Gokul Upadhyayula. Taking us down to the cellular level, he shares the work behind cutting-edge microscopes that capture and record, in three dimensions, the complex behaviors of living organisms -- from infecting cancer cells to crawling immune cells -- and what they're revealing about the dynamics of biology. Watch life unfold before your eyes with the incredible visuals in this talk.

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To understand how life works, you need to watch it in action, says bioimaging scientist Gokul Upadhyayula. Taking us down to the cellular level, he shares the work behind cutting-edge microscopes that capture and record, in three dimensions, the complex behaviors of living organisms -- from infecting cancer cells to crawling immune cells -- and what they're revealing about the dynamics of biology. Watch life unfold before your eyes with the incredible visuals in this talk.

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Gokul Upadhyayula

Bioimaging scientist

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Using revolutionary imaging technology, Gokul Upadhyayula provides biological insights with implications for the way we view and understand living organisms.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

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