Determining the shape of cells



Cytoskeleton of a fibroblast cell (red). It turn out that its shape can be described by arcs of one and the same ellipse. The more eccentric this ellipse, the more force the cell exerts. The contractile fibers (hazy red lines) are always …more
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-cells.html#jCp

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