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Tissues flow and grow

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Developing tissues undergo collective cell movement and changes to their material properties, such as flow characteristics. Now tissue fluidity is linked to tissue growth.

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Fig. 1: Tissue fluidity causes cell rearrangement.

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Shindo, A. Tissues flow and grow. Nat. Phys. 19, 938 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-01996-7

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