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if you could see the cellular mechanisms which drive this, you'd probably see valleys of rapidly dividing cells acting as repulsive force between rafts of cells which will become lateral buds.
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loren schmidt
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oof, there it is.
this is one of those moments where i palpably feel a sense of the rawness of things, of how close the underlying structure is. pic.twitter.com/bVFQn44NfK
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loren schmidt
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this is an electron microscope image of the foundational mechanism in spiral growth. this isn't even that small. the scale bar is 100 μm, or a tenth of a millimeter.
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loren schmidt
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apparently the phi angle ratio between lateral buds (and several other stable sequences) are an emergent property of basically a timer + point repulsion. perhaps it's more complex than descriptions i've come across, but if that's all it is it's a glaringly simple mechanism.
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Keelan Stuart
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One class of chemotherapy drugs is designed to inhibit the receptors that facilitate nano-tubule formation. It's fascinating stuff.
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loren schmidt
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oh, transport tubules? that's fascinating.
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