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Villeneuve, C., Hashmi, A., ... & Wickström, S. A. (2024). Mechanical forces across compartments coordinate cell shape and fate transitions to generate tissue architecture. Nature Cell Biology #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biology makes materials far more complex that what we can achieve ourselves. It often does this with small parts that come together to assemble into larger structures with defined sizes. Here is a theoretical contribution to solving this problem, funded by the NSF. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...