Cells Communicate With Chemical Signals In Tandon Labs VR Game Environment (IMAGE)

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Cells Communicate With Chemical Signals In Tandon Labs VR Game Environment

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Tandon Labs, debuting at the SXSW Gaming Expo, is an immersion into research of NYU Tandon professor Alesha B. Castillo. Users are virtually dropped through a microscope's eyepiece to the interstice between bone and capillary-forming endothelial cells. There they will enjoy a colorful close-up view of the process by which bone cells use chemical signals called paracrines to enjoin capillary endothelial cells to commence angiogenesis -- the formation of new blood vessels.

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Mark Skwarek

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