The Scutoid: The Basics Behind the Discovery

Full paper found on Nature at: #Abs1 Highlighting key takeaways from “Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia“ published in Nature by authors Pedro Gómez-Gálvez and Pablo Vicente-Munuera, and corresponding authors Javier Buceta or Luis M. Escudero. Institution affiliations include: Departamento de Biología Celular, Universidad de Sevilla and Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, 41013, Seville, Spain Pedro Gómez-Gálvez, Pablo Vicente-Munuera, Antonio Tagua, Cristina Forja, Ana M. Castro, Marta Letrán, Marina Bermúdez-Gallardo, Óscar Serrano-Pérez-Higueras & Luis M. Escudero CABD, CSIC/JA/UPO, Campus Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013, Seville, Spain Andrea Valencia-Expósito, Sol Sotillos & María D. Martín-Bermudo Departamento de Matemática Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Seville, Spain Clara Grima & Alberto Márquez Centro de Biolo