A UCSB biophysicist and deputy director of the Kavli
Institute for Theoretical Physics collaborates with colleagues to describe the
geometry of a common cellular structure
Architecture imitates life, at least when it comes to those
spiral ramps in multistory parking garages. Stacked and connecting parallel
levels, the ramps are replications of helical structures found in a ubiquitous
membrane structure in the cells of the body.