Many organ surfaces are covered by a protective epithelial-cell layer. It emerges that such layers are maintained by cell stretching that triggers cell division mediated by the force-sensitive ion-channel protein Piezo1. See Letter p.118
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Heisenberg, CP. Stretched divisions. Nature 543, 43–44 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21502
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