Physics of active matter – Experiments performed at the National Institute of Information and Communications in Kobe, Japan, analyzed by scientists from Japan and France (CEA-Iramis, Saclay), allow to visualize and explain, at the scale of a living cell, the spontaneous emergence of large-scale structures in a population of moving biomolecules.
The research was published in the journal Nature. (Published on Thursday 22 March 2012)
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March 22, 2012
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