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Cells Go Fractal Monday, September 07, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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The maths behind the rugged beauty of a coastline may help to keep cell biology in order, say researchers in Germany. Fractals — rough shapes that look the same at all scales — could explain how the cell's nucleus holds molecules that manage our DNA in the right location. In new experiments, Sebastien Huet and Aurelien Bancaud of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, tracked the movement of molecules within cells in a lab dish. (source: nature.com)
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