Orderly or coherent multicellular flows are fundamental in biology, but their triggers are not understood. In epithelial tissues, the tug-of-war between cells is now shown to lead to intrinsic asymmetric distributions in cell polarities that drive such flows.
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Gomez, G.A. Cells play tug-of-war to start moving collectively. Nat. Phys. 20, 189–190 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02314-x
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