Lisa and Max worked together with members of Jeff Fredberg’s group at the Harvard School of public health to see if their theoretical predictions could be verified in human cells from asthma and non-asthma patients.  The theoretical results were spectacularly confirmed, as discussed in a paper published online last week in Nature Materials:

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4357.html

A press release from the Harvard folks is here: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/no-traffic-jams-in-asthmatic-cells/

Stay tuned for news on the publication of the associated theory paper…..

(a preprint is available on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0593)