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Using mammalian skin as a model, Prof. Elaine Fuchs studies the remarkable properties
of tissue stem cells to replenish dying cells and repair wounds, and how the cells know
which tasks to perform and when. She explores how stem cells sense and communicate
with other cells in their environment. Aiming at advancing therapeutics, she dissects how
communication networks malfunction in inflammation, aging, and cancers.

Dipolar interactions are fundamentally different from the usual van der Waals forces in real gases. Besides its anisotropy the dipolar interaction is nonlocal and as such allows for self organized structure formation, like in many different fields of physics. Although the bosonic dipolar quantum liquid is very dilute, stable droplets and supersolids as well as honeycomb or labyrinth patterns can be formed due to the presence of quantum fluctuations beyond the mean field theory.