“This work demonstrates how organisms find ways to adapt and interact with specific organisms in a symbiotic or parasitic way to survive in hostile environments.”

Findings may mean better cell function in engineered tissues and organs

Over the past decade, new and emerging cell-based medical technologies have been developed to manage and possibly cure many conditions and diseases

"We can now create 3D images of cancer cells and record how they interact with their microenvironment via signaling."

When implanted in animals, the structures matured into functional tissue and developed a system of blood vessels

Technology could be used to better understand and treat disease

Solution could reduce wait times to a fraction of what they once were

FAU researchers are the first to show that cells in close proximity to each other can sense when a cell is dying, and eat the cell before it becomes toxic

Some of the keys to unlocking the origin of life lie encrypted in the ribosome, life’s oldest and most universal assembly of molecules

“It’s simple enough that one could teach an undergrad to do it in a week,” professor says