Scientists Discover Cells Reorganize Shape to Fit the Situation
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 13:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Flip open any biology textbook and you're bound to see a complicated diagram of the inner workings of a cell, with its internal scaffolding, the cytoskeleton, and how it maintains a cell's shape. Yet the fundamental question remains, which came first: the shape, or the skeleton? Now a Penn research team has the answer: Both.