BiophysicsbioRxiv
Epithelia are multiscale active liquid crystals
J.-M. Armengol-Collado, L. N. Carenza, J. Eckert…·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.
DOI 10.1038/s41567-023-02179-0