Hot Article: How do mechanical forces shape cells and their organelles?

Researchers show that the spherical harmonics parameterization (SHP) method reliably calculates vesicle and cell morphology. Most importantly, SHP calculated the shape of red blood cells (RBC), reproducing the slightly out-of-plane spicules observed experimentally for echinocytes (crenated RBCs).

Minimum-energy vesicle and cell shapes calculated using spherical harmonics parameterization

Read the article here, for free until 11 March: Khaled Khairy and Jonathon Howard
Soft Matter, 2011, (Advance Article), DOI: 10.1039/C0SM01193B, Paper

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