Nicholas Noll, Madhav Mani, Idse Heemskerk, Sebastian J. Streichan and Boris I. Shraiman

Nature Physics, vol. 13, 1221, 2017

10.1038/nphys4219

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Abstract

Determining how cellular activity affects the collective properties of growing tissues is key to understanding morphogenesis. An epithelial tissue model shows how active tension can give rise to striking mechanical behaviours seen in experiments.

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