Epithelia are multiscale active liquid crystals
J.-M. Armengol-Collado, L. N. Carenza, J. Eckert, D. Krommydas, L. Giomi
This study shows that epithelial layers exhibit both nematic and hexatic liquid crystal order, with nematic dominance at large scales and hexatic at small scales, using MDCK cells.
bioRxiv · Feb 1, 2022Biophysics