A minimal model for how a cell takes shape from the insideResearchers at the University of Twente and Utrecht University have packed rigid, rod-shaped particles into soft lipid containers the size of a living cell, and watched the container and its contents reshape each other. The vesicles’s form determines how the rods line up; the tightly packed rods, in turn, bend the container into new shapes. This provides a minimal model for how physical coupling between a soft boundary and internal filaments can help cellular structures organise from within.Read more
British ambassador visits MESA+ InstituteOn Thursday 18 June 2026, the British Ambassador to the Netherlands, Chris Rampling, visits the MESA+ Institute at the University of Twente. The university is one stop on a wider working visit to the province of Overijssel.Read more
A minimal model for how a cell takes shape from the inside
British ambassador visits MESA+ Institute
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