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. 2013 Jul 18;154(2):265-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.06.032.

Differential geometry meets the cell

Wallace F Marshall  1
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Differential geometry meets the cell

Wallace F Marshall. Cell. .
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Abstract

A new study by Terasaki et al. highlights the role of physical forces in biological form by showing that connections between stacked endoplasmic reticulum cisternae have a shape well known in classical differential geometry, the helicoid, and that this shape is a predictable consequence of membrane physics.

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