OCTOBER 15, 2018

Stanford researchers decode an ancient, extraordinary animal

Almost eight years ago, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash was looking for a way to watch every cell in an adult living, behaving animal in elaborate detail. He searched the catalog of life and happened upon a simple marine animal called Trichoplax adhaerens – or Tplax, as Prakash has come to call it.

Read the Stanford News story: https://news.stanford.edu/2018/10/15/new-mechanism-animal-cells-stay-intact/

"Ultrafast epithelial contractions provide insights into contraction speed limits and tissue integrity," Shahaf Armon, Matthew Storm Bull, Andres Aranda-Diaz, and Manu Prakash: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1802934115

Music: "Eternity" by Stellardrone:

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