Origin of the Chinese word for “cell”: an unusual but wonderful idea of a mathematician

He Zhang

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Protein Cell ›› 2021, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (9) : 671 -674. DOI: 10.1007/s13238-020-00790-y

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