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How platelets pull the strings

No matter if it is a nosebleed, a scratch, or a cut – we regularly rely on our body’s innate ability to stop the loss of blood from injured blood vessels. This task is mainly done by little cells in our blood stream called "platelets”.... click to read more

Ingmar Schoen | Research Group Leader at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Sebastian Lickert | Research group leader at ETH Zurich

Viola Vogel | Research Group Leader at ETH Zurich

super-resolution microscopy

Mechanobiology

Platelets

Wound healing

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Mar 28, 2023

How a type of expanding thread dictates plant growth

Have you ever wondered how plants can raise road surfaces and crack concrete? Unraveling this enigma requires understanding how plants grow and generate their shapes. Surprisingly, this simple question is still an open mystery. In all multicellular organisms, the space between adjacent cells is made up... click to read more

Kalina T. Haas | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000, Versailles, France

Alexis Peaucelle | Researcher at Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000, Versailles, France

Plant Morphogenesis

Cell Wall

Pectins

super-resolution microscopy

Polymer expansion

Reading time 2 min

published on Nov 12, 2020