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And microtubules-hollow filaments that thread through cells-could act as optical fibres, he believes, feeding light towards the centrioles from the cell's wall.
And microtubules-hollow filaments that thread through cells-could act as optical fibres, he believes, feeding light towards the centrioles from the cell's wall. Considering a microtubule is 24 nm in diameter, and a photon in the blue region of the spectrum is around 400 nm in wavelength, there are certain, em, difficulties with this idea.