Beautiful Science

Researchers from the lab of Prof Lim Chwee Teck at the Mechanobiology Institute at NUS studied how tissue cells move in micro-tubular structures and found that those in a smaller, highly constricted microtube move in a slower and periodically relaxed manner than those in a larger one. Understanding key processes in collective cell migration can give insights into how tissue cells organise themselves and take shape as well as contribute to better tissue engineering of blood vessels.

• The Straits Times, 11 January 2018, Science, pB9