{"id":81048,"date":"2018-07-30T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/new-geometric-shape-used-by-nature-to-pack-cells-efficiently"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:08:14","slug":"new-geometric-shape-used-by-nature-to-pack-cells-efficiently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/new-geometric-shape-used-by-nature-to-pack-cells-efficiently","title":{"rendered":"New geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-geometric-shape-used-by-nature-to-pack-cells-efficiently3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These cells pack together tightly. To accommodate the curving that occurs during embryonic development, it has been assumed that epithelial cells adopt either columnar or bottle-like shapes.<\/p>\n<p>However, a group of scientists dug deeper into this phenomenon and discovered a new geometric shape in the process.<\/p>\n<p>They uncovered that, during tissue bending, epithelial cells adopt a previously undescribed shape that enables the cells to minimize energy use and maximize packing stability. The team\u2019s results will be published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em> in a paper called \u201cScutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/07\/180728084136.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/07\/180728084136.h...m=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These cells pack together tightly. To accommodate the curving that occurs during embryonic development, it has been assumed that epithelial cells adopt either columnar or bottle-like shapes. However, a group of scientists dug deeper into this phenomenon and discovered a new geometric shape in the process. They uncovered that, during tissue bending, epithelial cells adopt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81121,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81048\/revisions\/81121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}