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Professor Dagmar Sternad studies human movement with Boston ballet dancers in her lab on January 9, 2019. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Top row (Left to Right): A transition from normal epithelial cells in a honeycomb pattern to shifted cells. This transition leads to increasing disorder in their shapes. Bottom row: Simulated patterns from the theoretical vertex model recapitulate cell shapes and topologies. Experimental images are adapted from
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez & Jennifer A. Zallen, Current Biology Volume 18 Issue 4 Pages 163-165, (2008)
James Halverson. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
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