Penn scientists discover cells reorganize shape to fit the situation

Monday, November 24, 2008 - 14:07 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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?

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