Compaction dynamics during progenitor cell self-assembly reveal granular mechanics
B. Smeets, J. Pesek, T. Deckers, G. Nilsson Hall, M. Cuvelier, S. Ongenae, V. Bloemen, F. P. Luyten, I. Papantoniou, H. Ramon
The paper studies self-assembly dynamics of human progenitor cells in agarose micro-wells, finding that aggregates behave as granular piles with density relaxation following a stretched exponential.
bioRxiv · Aug 20, 2019Biophysics