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It's easy to forget how grounded in physics biology is. When I was in college, we had an issue where our stem cell lines were differentiating into bone. Turns o
by __loam 3y ago
It's easy to forget how grounded in physics biology is. When I was in college, we had an issue where our stem cell lines were differentiating into bone. Turns out, the hardness of the environment is a signal stem cells can transduce, and the hard dish was telling them they were supposed to be bone cells.
- praptak 3y agoHmm, this mechanism can only add more bone to existing bone, right? So how do the first bone cells know to start becoming bone?