Aging is a process that affects not only living beings. Many materials, like plastics and glasses, also age — ie they change slowly as their particles try to pack better. Biological materials, such as living tissue, show similar behavior to glasses except that the particles are actual cells with their own propulsion. Researchers used computer simulations to explore the aging behavior of these ‘living’ glassy systems.
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Source: ScienceDaily