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Epithelia are multiscale active liquid crystals - Nature Physics
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Biological processes such as embryogenesis, wound healing and cancer progression rely on the ability of epithelial cells to coordinate their mechanical activity over length scales that are orders of magnitude larger than the typical cellular size1. Although this process is regulated by various signalling pathways2, it has recently become evident that this coordination can be understood using physics tools, of which liquid crystal order is a prominent example3,4.
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