Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into ...

“We aimed to mimic nature by fabricating flagella ... T-type (in which a molecule induced to change by light slowly reverts to its original shape after a time) or P-type (where shape-change ...

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

MIT scientists have discovered a way to control the movements of starfish cells using light, which could have biomedical applications.

Recently, scientists harnessed these movements using beams of light to ... understand how nature does it." Starfish offer a uniquely useful model for studying cell growth and shape.

They could even shine light at specific points around a cell to stretch its shape from a circle to a square. Their results, which will appear in the journal Nature Physics, provide scientists with ...