Petri - dish cultures grew into
flat cell sheets, while those in a weightless chamber grew into 3 - D spheres.
Not exact matches
In a study published recently in the journal Carbon, the team grew human and mouse fibroblast
cells (
cells involved in wound healing) on
flat graphene
sheets and on wrinkled ones.
For instance, solar
cells containing stacks of
flat, graphenelike
sheets of perovskites seem to hold up better than solar
cells with the standard three - dimensional crystal and its interwoven layers.
«Within 3 weeks after expression of the NeuroD1 protein, we saw in the microscope that human glial
cells were reinventing themselves: they changed their shape from
flat sheet - like glial
cells into normal - looking neurons with axon and dendritic branches,» Chen said.