How do cells recover their shape after being subjected to external forces?

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 12:21 in Physics & Chemistry

Human cells show deformation under the influence of external forces. But how do they recover their original shape afterwards? This mechanism, which is important in medicine and biology, has been described for the first time by FAU researchers and their international colleagues in an article in the journal Nature Materials.

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