What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated?
They become materials.
Honored to write a @natphys.nature.com News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by Prof. Fakhri and colleagues at @mit.edu 😀
N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature Physics - Marine embryos are usually studied in isolation. But when starfish embryos are in a crowd, they self-assemble into living solids with unexpected dynamics, revealing how simple...
