Liquid crystals in living tissue

Linda S. Hirst () and Guillaume Charras ()
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Linda S. Hirst: School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, California 95343, USA.
Guillaume Charras: Guillaume Charras is at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London WC1H 0AH, UK.

Nature, 2017, vol. 544, issue 7649, 164-165

Abstract: Evidence has been found that a biological tissue might behave like a liquid crystal. Even more remarkably, topological defects in this liquid-crystal system seem to influence cell behaviour. A materials physicist and a biologist discuss what the findings mean for researchers in their fields. See Letter p.212

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/544164a

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