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A colloidal crystal film deposited by colloidal self-assembly of polymer spheres onto glass.

Self-assembling tents

This image was included in a 2001 exhibition, "On Growth and Form: Textiles and the engineering of nature," at the Textile Museum of Canada.

Continuous tensional integrity in the actin cytoskeleton within, and between, living cells.

Fluorescent micrograph showing focal adhesion anchoring complexes, actin filament bundles, and nuclei of a spread endothelial cell.

Scanning electron micrograph of a pancreatic tumor cells that remains round and disorganized on a stromal matrix.

Fluorescent micrograph showing focal adhesion anchoring complexes, actin filament bundles, and nuclei of a spread endothelial cel.

Tissue formed through cellular self-assembly in a matrix gel.