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Cells feel their environment to explore it

11 December, 201711 December, 2017

The way cells find their way around is by ‘groping’ rather than seeing their surroundings: this is the main conclusion of a study published in Nature last week involving several parners of the Mechanocontrol consortium, mainly IBEC’s Cellular and molecular mechanobiology and Integrative cell and tissue dynamics.

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