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Cellular tensegrity: defining new rules of biological design that govern the cytoskeleton
Journal of Cell Science · 1993 · Vol. 104(3) · pp. 613–627
Donald E. Ingber✉(Boston Children's Hospital)
Abstract
ABSTRACT “…organization exists in the living organism, and this organization is not something fundamentally mystical and unamenable to scientific attack, but rather the basic problem confronting the biologist.” Joseph Needham (Terry Lectures, Yale University, 1936)
Cellular Mechanics and InteractionsMicrotubule and mitosis dynamicsBiocrusts and Microbial EcologyTensegrityBiologyBiologistOrganismCognitive scienceGeneticsEngineering
MeSH terms
ActinsAnimalsCell MovementCell NucleusCytoskeletonHumansIntermediate FilamentsMicrotubulesModels, BiologicalNuclear Matrix
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