Open AccessDifferential Geometry Meets the Cell
Author(s) -
Wallace F. Marshall
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2013.06.032
Subject(s) - biology , geometry , differential (mechanical device) , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , physics , mathematics , thermodynamics
A new study by Terasaki et al. highlights the role of physical forces in biological form by showing that connections between stacked endoplasmic reticulum cisternae have a shape well known in classical differential geometry, the helicoid, and that this shape is a predictable consequence of membrane physics.
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