13 October 2024
Up the Villi
Our intestine's surface is intricately folded into projections called villi – where absorption of nutrients occurs. Creating folds as the gut develops comes from cells of the sub-surface curving neighbouring tissue via a solid to fluid-like process that conceptually resembles water dewetting from a hydrophobic surface
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- Image from work by Tyler R. Huycke, Teemu J. Häkkinen and Hikaru Miyazaki, and colleagues
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Cell, June 2024
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