Cells snack on nanowires
Phagocytosis draws in silicon strands, opening possible route to bioelectronics
REACH OUT AND TOUCH A membrane tendril stretches from a human cell to wrap around a silicon nanowire — the start of phagocytosis, this scanning electron microscopy image suggests.
J. Zimmerman et al/Science Advances 2016
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