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Intermittent attachments form three-dimensional cell aggregates with emergent fluid properties

2025-09-26

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In living systems across developmental and cancer biology, populations of cells on surfaces organize themselves into aggregates that mediate function and disease. Recent experimental studies have identified that such aggregates can have emergent fluid-like properties such as surface tension, yet the physical origin of these properties is not clear. Here, we develop a minimal cell-based model in which cell-cell and...

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Literature Corpus work: cb7bc7f3-4b84-5491-b3cf-13cda9b3d1cb
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.24.678186

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