Biophysicist Explores Cell Behavior

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This biophysicist’s work could one day let doctors control immune cells

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Hawa Racine Thiam is a biophysicist at Stanford University .

She's fascinated by the physics of cells: how they move and deform and the physical rules that shape their behavior.

Her research that peers into fundamental questions of biology could have implications for human health.

If scientists could one day physically control cells in the body, they could send immune cells to the site of an infection or stop tumors from spreading.

Scientists had first reported NETosis in 2004 , but they didn’t really know how it worked.

Using cutting-edge microscopy and gene-editing techniques, the researchers outlined the sequence of events that begin with a cell’s DNA packed inside the nucleus and end with it blown outside the cell.

“She has this fearlessness in coming at these really very challenging problems in cell biology,” says Brangwynne .

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