Free volume theory explains the unusual behavior of viscosity in a non-confluent tissue during morphogenesis
R. Das, S. Sinha, X. Li, T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Thirumalai
The paper uses simulations to show that cell size polydispersity and deformability explain the viscosity plateau in non-confluent zebrafish tissue beyond a critical packing fraction.
bioRxiv · Nov 25, 2022Biophysics