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Wetting by living tissues

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An active counterpart to passive wetting is an encouraging sign for tissue physics and, more generally, the interface between biology and physics.

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Fig. 1: Active epithelial wetting.

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  • 08 October 2018

    In the version of this News & Views originally published, the word ‘generally’ in the standfirst was incorrectly written as ‘egenerally’. This has now been corrected.

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  2. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Australia Node, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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  3. Division of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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