These are the salt glaciers of Iran
Million of years ago, the Persian Gulf was a much larger body of water, as the water evaporated/retreated, vast quantities of salt remained
Compacted over the years, by sediments washed down in rains 1/2
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Wow — cells of the newly described bacterium Thiomargarita magnifica average ~1 cm in length, easily bigger than C. elegans nematodes or Drosophila fruit flies, and about 5,000 times the size of the bacteria most of us are studying.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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mRNA is roughly 10x heavier and 10x larger than the protein it encodes for. Amazing.
From the mind-blowing book Cell Biology by the Numbers from @MiloLabWIS and Rob Philips
book.bionumbers.org/which-is-bigge…
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