Cells moving on microprinted tracks reveal a preference for regions that they have already visited, suggesting an update to a century of dynamical models for cell trajectories.
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Flyvbjerg, H. Past attractions set future course. Nat. Phys. 17, 771–772 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01298-w
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