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Collective cell motion in a continuous tissue is found to be guided by cooperative intercellular forces.

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Figure 1: Schematics of the forces inside a cellular layer.

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  1. Nir Gov is in the Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel,

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Gov, N. Moving under peer pressure. Nature Mater 10, 412–414 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3036

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