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The curved blue wave pattern on the floors of the San Antonio State Hospital is meant to symbolize the River Walk, which runs a few miles to the north. A decorative quatrefoil shape on the exterior of ...

"In science, structure is function," says Lippincott-Schwartz, who also heads Janelia's 4D Cellular Physiology research area. "This is an unusual, beautiful structure that we are seeing throughout the ...