Fetal bovine serum
- derived from blood drawn from bovine fetus via a closed system of collection at the slaughterhouse. (Meat industry byproduct)
- rich source of growth & attachment factors, lipids, hormones, nutrients, electrolytes necessary to support cell growth in culture.
This was a fence made of tree trunk and used books in Berlin. I wonder if we can make other structures from decomposing stuff? What are other things that serve function as both barrier and information? How does the tree feel? And can we read from a fence?
To entomologists, why do some ants carry the leaf bite leaning forward vs backward? And if it’s a windy day, do the pheromone trails get blurred or wrong?
@JuliaEckert10 Based on these geometric properties and assuming that forces are balanced in equilibrium, the Force Inference technique can be used to study mechanical properties of cells in tissues.
https://t.co/xJfAOPCAm3
The fact that every protein can potentially associate with many others leads to an explosion of combinatorial possibilities that is exceedingly difficult to represent in diagrammatic form. Attempts to do so result in horror graphs where everything does everything to everything/10
Is endothelium a type of epithelium?
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I am @icfortunato & I would like to discuss this with a short🧵 focused on cell-cell junctions, specifically adherens junctions
call for special issue in B&B
RoboTwin:
Reciprocal Insights between Biology and Robotics
main idea:
bio-inspired robotics & #robotics for #biology
dead: Dec 1, 2024
organized by @LiangLi52, Wei Wang, Steven Coron, @joefresna, @icouzin, and myself
https://t.co/pWdQjMTgdD
Two very particular patterns of random movement — Brownian motion and Lévy walks — describe a great many physical phenomena. Recent data hint that Lévy walks may be a default movement pattern for many animal species. https://t.co/U6xAh3Qw2F