Using Light to Study and Control Tissue Folding (VIDEO)
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The complex 3D shapes of brains, lungs, eyes, hands, and other vital bodily structures emerge from the way in which flat 2D sheets of cells fold during embryonic development. Now, researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a novel way to use light to influence an animal's own proteins in order to control folding in live embryos.
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Andrew Countryman/Kasza lab
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