In recent years, researchers have discovered that, aside from fracturing, living tissues also crumple, buckle, wrinkle, and fold via physical mechanisms that produce incredible diversity with just a few slight tweaks in tissue properties and architecture.
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Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026
Some newer injectables, called cell therapies, collect cells and tissues from bone marrow or fat tissue.
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