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IMAGE: Fluorescent microscopy image of a proliferating cell front, whose edge is indicated in green. The rat epithelial cells, with cytoplasm (blue) and nuclei (red), form a 2-dimensional culture which can. view more
Credit: © Guillaume Rapin, UNIGE
In material physics understanding how systems interact across the interfaces separating them is of central interest. But can physical models clarify similar concepts in living systems, such as cells? Physicists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the University of Zurich (UZH), used the framework of disordered elastic systems to study the process of wound healing - the proliferation of cell fronts which eventually join to close a lesion. Their study identified the scales of the dominant interactions between cells which determine this process. The results, published in the journal
Ferroelectric domain supercrystals
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