Motility-Driven Glass and Jamming Transitions in Biological Tissues

Cell motion inside dense tissues governs many biological processes, including embryonic development and cancer metastasis, and recent experiments suggest that these tissues exhibit collective glassy behavior. To make quantitative predictions about glass transitions in tissues, we study a self-propel...

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Main Authors: Dapeng Bi, Xingbo Yang, M. Cristina Marchetti, M. Lisa Manning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-04-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021011