Hydraulic Instabilities Dictate the Volumes of Germ Cells and Balloons (IMAGE)

Technische Universität Dresden

Hydraulic Instabilities Dictate the Volumes of Germ Cells and Balloons

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Left: Picture of two balloons connected through a central tube, any new air coming through the white pipe will inflate the red balloon rather than the blue one. Right: Spinning-disk confocal image of interconnected <em>C. elegans</em> germ cells. Cortical actin showing the cell cortex is labelled in magenta and myosin, delineating the germ cells openings through which both cells exchange cytoplasmic material, is labelled in green.

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Nicolas Chartier et al. <em>Nature Physics</em>, 20 May 2021

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