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Movies tell us how tissues develop a 3D shape

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Fig. 1: In 3D, cells have complex shapes, and it makes inference tricky.

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Graner, F. Movies tell us how tissues develop a 3D shape. Nat Methods 20, 1877–1878 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-02102-8

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