We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained

Researchers first observed the previously unnamed shape in a computer model. They then went to nature and found it in abundance.
Alan Burdick on the discovery of a new shape called the scutoid, which is common among cells in curved tissues.

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