In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start to move and shake, leading to contractions that cause it to squeeze, pinch, and eventually divide. As daughter cells follow ...

Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists at the University of Amsterdam have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle ...

The researchers observed that light activated the enzyme, causing predictable cell movements. For example, specific light ...

MIT scientists have discovered a way to control the movements of starfish cells using light, which could have biomedical applications.

Engineered starfish oocytes shape-shift in response to light, may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for ...

MIT researchers have found the way to control such movement using light. They worked with starfish egg cells, an organism which has been commonly utilized in the study of cell development.