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| MLA Full: | "You Had A Cell That Was Larger Than A Bedsheet." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 21 January 2026, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuN5HxSew7w. |
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When she was pregnant a few years ago, Hannah Yevick was reading about the placenta and learned it contained a cell whose surface spanned a whopping 13 square meters—larger than a King-sized bed sheet. The Brandeis University biophysicist was immediately fascinated, and her research on this giant cell is now revealing a lot about how cells work in general. For this SciShow Field Trips episode, we traveled to Yevick's lab to learn about the largest cell in the human body.
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