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University of California - San Diego

Unidirectional Stretching of Cells

Caption: UCSD bioengineers have found a link between parallel alignment of 'stress fibers' in blood vessel cells and healthy levels in those cells of a protein called JNK.

Credit: UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering

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