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Platelets are cells in the blood whose job is to stop bleeding by sticking together to form clots and plug up a wound. Now, for the first time, scientists have measured and mapped the key molecular forces on platelets that trigger this process. The extensive results, by Emory University chemist Khalid Salaita and colleagues, are reported in two separate studies, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in Nature Methods: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4536

Read more about the discovery here: http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2017/12/new-methods-reveal-biomechanics-of.html