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Mike Norton
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Physics of Soft/Active/Living Systems
www.mmnorton.com
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An imaging system with an ultra-wide field of view allows scientists to track millions of cells at once in large 3D tissues and embryos.
https://buff.ly/3Q83gZD
February 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Happy to be on BlueSky!
For my first post, I am excited to share a new collaborative paper combining experiments and simulations, where we used circadian clock proteins to engineer biomaterials with time-programmed self-assembly and disassembly www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Programming scheduled self-assembly of circadian materials - Nature Communications
Harnessing biomolecular systems to endow synthetic materials with life-like properties is a significant challenge. Here, the authors use the biomolecular KaiABC circadian clock proteins to control aut...
www.nature.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Following up on my earlier post, XRM imaging of a collard green inflorescence. The real power of XRM imaging in plant biology is generating high resolution cell-level image data through the entire intact volume, in this case pollen-filled anthers surrounding the stigmatic surface.
December 14, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing.

Self-identify and I will add you...

See you at APS-DFD!

go.bsky.app/8Njfprh
November 22, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space !
Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns.
#morphogenesis
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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November 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM
abhorring an empty account, check out the recent work Piyush Grover and I published in PRE on bioinspired defect sensing in an active nematic. A big thanks to the community for all the discussions that inspired this work: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
supported by DOE grant DE-SC0022280
November 27, 2024 at 10:56 PM