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Math predicts size of clot-forming cells

UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and shape that they are. Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The living fossils of brain evolution

(Phys.org) -- In the course of its evolution, the architecture of the mouse brain may have barely changed. Similar to the tiny ancestors of modern mammals that lived about 80 million years ago, nerve cells ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast