Human cells help researchers understand squid camouflage (IMAGE)

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Human cells help researchers understand squid camouflage

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By incorporating squid proteins in mammalian cells, researchers could tune the cells’ transparency from clear to cloudy (scale bar is 10 µm).

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Adapted from ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.2c00088

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