Heterotypic interfacial tension between oncogenic and wild-type populations forms the mechanical basis of tissue-specific oncogenesis in epithelia
Amrapali Datta, Phanindra Dewan, Aswin Anto, Tanya Chhabra, Tanishq Tejaswi, Sindhu Muthukrishnan, Akshar Rao, Sumantra Sarkar, Medhavi Vishwakarma
This study shows that mechanical interfacial tension between oncogenic and wild-type cells determines tissue-specific tumor formation in mammary and bronchial epithelia.
bioRxiv · Mar 14, 2025Biophysics