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Article: UC San Diego bioengineers fill holes in science of cellular self-organization.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- November 8, 2008
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The chemical and biological aspects of cellular self-organization are well-studied; less well understood is how cell populations order themselves biomechanically u how their behavior and communication are affected by high density and physical proximity. Bioengineers and physicists at the University of California San Diego, in a paper published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have begun to address these fundamental questions (see also University of California - San Diego).
The UC San Diego scientists focused their research on dense colonies of the rod-shaped bacteria Escherichia coli. By analyzing the spatial ...