Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/22/138610587/video-pick-engineering-artificial-cilia?ft=1&f=1007
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Sunday, 24 July 2011
Video Pick: Engineering Artificial Cilia
Cilia and flagella, the protrusions that cells use for propulsion and sensing, often wave spontaneously. Zvonimir Dogic, a physicist at Brandeis University, wanted to understand what about their structure drives this waving motion so he fabricated artificial versions in the lab. Although much simpler, they will also spontaneously flap.
