Dec 11, 2023
Behind the Wave
Computer model of a 'carpet' of beating cilia – the whisker-like structures on many body cell types that sense or waft – reveals the mechanism of their synchronisation. Watch the emergence of a metachronal wave (a Mexican wave is one of these)
Read the published research paper here
Video adapted from work by David J. Hickey, Ramin Golestanian and Andrej Vilfan
Department of Living Matter Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), September 2023
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