See how cells compare along a relative scale axis with other molecules, tissues, and biological structures (blue arrow at bottom). Note that a micrometer (μm) is also known as a micron.

The authors measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint, to see if the laws that ...

Allometry and Relative Growth The term allometry was coined ... was linearized when the data were re-plotted onto a log-log scale (Figure 1). Even more interesting was the fact that the slope ...