Mechanical coupling narrows an epithelial colony before it reaches a bottleneck
Sun-Min Yu, Yoon‐Kyoung Cho, Steve Granick
The paper shows that epithelial colonies narrow before entering a bottleneck through active reorganization, not passive compression, involving E-cadherin-dependent tension and dynamic flow reversal.
bioRxiv · Sep 18, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics