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Polar Fluctuations Lead to Extensile Nematic Behavior in Confluent Tissues
Andrew Killeen, Thibault Bertrand, Chiu Fan Lee
How can a collection of motile cells, each generating contractile nematic stresses in isolation, become an extensile nematic at the tissue-level? Understanding this seemingly contr…
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Adhesion as a trigger of droplet polarization in flowing emulsions
Iaroslava Golovkova, Lorraine Montel, Franck Pan +4
Tissues are subjected to large external forces and undergo global deformations during morphogenesis. We use synthetic analogues of tissues to study the impact of cell-cell adhesion…