Three-dimensional cell movements have been tracked by researchers at Brown University by studying the forces that individual cells put on their environments.
When a cell moves, they coil up and extend “arms”, testing their surroundings like we do when feeling for the bottom of the swimming pool. Images like the one above show the various pressures exerted by a moving cell as it explores its surroundings.
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