Emergent mechanics of biological structures.

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Published in Mol Biol Cell on November 05, 2014

Authors

Sophie Dumont1, Manu Prakash2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cell and Tissue Biology and Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0512 sophie.dumont@ucsf.edu.
2: Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4125.

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