The cell: a polymer chemists playground

I think it is just overwhelming to see the order “of life”.  Starting out with a search for patterns in electron microscopy for desmosomes has led me to find cell adhesion molecules a really fascinating, perhaps the ultimate, cell-environment interface. So I will go on a hunt, just for the pure joy of finding them.

Von Willebrand Factor (article) bar=10nm. “This factor serves as a docking station or molecular bus to which numerous proteins bind during the formation of blood clots.” (quote from article linked above by Zongchao Jia).