Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into ...

Now, researchers at MIT have discovered a way to manipulate these early cellular motions using light, providing a new tool to ...

MIT scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development.

Scientists were able to manipulate cells by changing the location of the light. With this technique, they were able to ...

Starfish offer a uniquely useful model for studying cell growth and shape. These creatures begin life as symmetrical cells but develop complex symmetry patterns as they mature—from bilateral ...

and the processes that govern how cells follow or break symmetry as they grow and divide. The five-limbed starfish, she says, is an ideal organism for exploring such questions of growth ...