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Showing posts with label Elasticity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elasticity. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The Molecule That Gives Skin Elasticity

Through Tropoelastin's movements, it assembles to make elastic fibers, tubes and sheets for tissue repair. It is used to make and fix many different elastic tissues in the body. This material relates to the paper titled, 'Subtle balance of tropoelastin molecular shape and flexibility regulates dynamics and hierarchical assembly. [Weiss Lab, University of Sydney]

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