Cell Moving through a 3-D Matrix (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

Cell Moving through a 3-D Matrix

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Penn and NIH researchers measured the internal pressure of individual fibroblast cells (in orange) moving through a three-dimensional matrix (in blue). They found that, in this environment, the cells' nuclei operate like an engine's piston to push the cell forward.

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