{"id":5020,"date":"2016-11-04T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:48:50","slug":"stuck-in-small-spaces-confinement-helps-stem-cell-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/stuck-in-small-spaces-confinement-helps-stem-cell-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in small spaces: Confinement helps stem cell organization <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know that unpleasant feeling of the rush-hour commute, when you barely have any breathing room? Turns out that for stem cells, such tight spaces are a catalyst for sophisticated organization. As a team of researchers in Ottawa found, being packed like sardines helps stem cells organize into structures crucial for early mammalian life. Authors conclude that physical confinement is a simple yet effective way of cell generation. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sebastian V. Hadjiantoniou, David Sean, Maxime Ignacio, Michel Godin, Gary W. Slater, Andrew E. Pelling<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding Canadian author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Pelling, University of Ottawa,\u00a0<span class=\"nlm-addr-line\">Gendron Hall, 30 Marie<\/span> Curie, <span class=\"nlm-addr-line\">Ottawa, Ontario<\/span>, <span class=\"nlm-country\">Canada<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-addr-line\">K1N 6N5<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/13\/123\/20160613\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper <\/a>published in\u00a0<strong><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of the Royal Society Interface <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on October 25, 2016.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that unpleasant feeling of the rush-hour commute, when you barely have any breathing room? Turns out that for stem cells, such tight spaces are a catalyst for sophisticated organization. As a team of researchers in Ottawa found, being packed like sardines helps stem cells organize into structures crucial for early mammalian life. Authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2689,2217,2688,2690,1288],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biophysics","tag-biotechnology","tag-cell-biology","tag-molecular-biology","tag-stem-cells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}