How To Divide And Conquer 'Social Network' Of Cells
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 14:14
in Biology & Nature
On Noah's Ark animals came in twos: male and female. In human bodies trillions of cells are coupled, too, and so are the molecules from which they are composed. Yet these don't come in twos, they are regrouped into indistinguishable clusters. Because these complex cell networks are the backbone of life -- and illness -- scientists have long searched for ways to splice cell clusters down to their original pairs.