Quantifying the shape of cells - from Minkowski tensors to p-atic order
Lea Happel, Griseldis Oberschelp, Valeriia Grudtsyna, Harish P Jain, Rastko Sknepnek, Amin Doostmohammadi, Axel Voigt
The paper introduces mathematical tools to quantify cell shape and demonstrates p-atic order in MDCK monolayers, challenging previous findings on orientational symmetry.
eLife · Nov 19, 2025Peer-reviewedBiophysics