Live-Cell Microscopy Reveals How Cell Movement is Driven

In science, it’s difficult to predict where the next discovery will emerge. While researchers hope that their grant-funded research will be fruitful, sometimes impactful findings can arise from seemingly unlikely source—which is what investigators at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) recently encountered. Two new studies, which began as a student project in the MBL Physiology Course and were developed in the MBL Whitman Center, show how cells respond to internal force