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Stanford researchers decode an ancient, extraordinary animal

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Almost eight years ago, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash was looking for a way to watch every cell in an adult living, behaving animal in elaborate detail. He searched the catalog of life and happened upon a simple marine animal called Trichoplax adhaerens – or Tplax, as Prakash has come to call it.
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"Ultrafast epithelial contractions provide insights into contraction speed limits and tissue integrity," Shahaf Armon, Matthew Storm Bull, Andres Aranda-Diaz, and Manu Prakash:
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