![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106044358im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field UC-San Diego Bioengineers Fill Holes in Science of Cellular Self-organization
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October 6, 2008
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The chemical and biological aspects of cellular self-organization are well-studied; less well understood is how cell populations order themselves biomechanically--how their behavior and communication are affected by high density and physical proximity. Bioengineers and physicists at the University of California, San Diego, in a paper published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have begun to address these fundamental questions.
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