A multinational team of scientists have uncovered a previously undescribed shape — they call the ’scutoid’ — adopted by epithelial cells during embryonic development that enables the cells to minimize energy use and maximize packing stability.
A multinational team of scientists have uncovered a previously undescribed shape — they call the ’scutoid’ — adopted by epithelial cells during embryonic development that enables the cells to minimize energy use and maximize packing stability.