Life Sticks: Bioengineers' Sticky Insights Illuminate Biological Processes
Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 19:21
in Biology & Nature
Sticky is good, according to bioengineers whose research is providing new insights on the "stickiness of life." The big idea is that cells, tissues and organisms hailing from all limbs of the tree of life respond to stimuli using basic biological "modules." For example, the researchers outlined similar strategies across biology for fulfilling the tasks of "sticking together" (cell-cell interactions), "sticking to their surroundings" (cell-extracellular matrix interactions), and responding to forces.
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