Tiny machines: Team ‘sees’ forces in living cells
Researchers were able to measure—and to literally see—the mechanical forces at play between and within living cells.
If certain types of living cells are placed on a microscope slide, the cells will inch across the glass, find their neighbors, and assemble themselves into a simple, if primitive, tissue.
The new study from Stanford University may help explain this phenomenon, and then some, about the mechanical structure and behavior of complex living organisms.
Full story at Futurity.
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