SOCI 3750: How Race Gets Under Our Skin: The Sociology of Race, Health, and Biomedicine

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Image: Multiphoton fluorescence image of cultured HeLa cells with a fluorescent protein targeted to the Golgi apparatus (orange), microtubules (green) and counterstained for DNA (cyan). Nikon RTS2000MP custom laser scanning microscope. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Via Wikimedia Commons.

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