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05 February 2026
Eye Have It
Cells couldn't perform their vital roles if they just flopped about like tiny water-filled balloons. Their inner scaffold or cytoskeleton of carefully constructed but dynamic structural protein fibres ensures cells are in the right shape for the job. A fruit fly's eye is an example of a highly-specialised tissue and here researchers have analysed in 3D how different structures formed of a cytoskeletal protein actin emerge over time as the eye develops culminating in the function-essential curved shape
Image made using Leica Microsystems microscopy
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