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The fruit fly’s eye consists of a highly patterned hexagonal lattice of 800 clusters of photoreceptor cells. Some of the secrets as to how this pattern formed remained a mystery until 2022. That’s ...

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Mathematical and Computational Studies of the Biomechanics of Bacterial Biofilms Bacterial biofilms are communities of bacteria growing on a surface, typically in anaqueous environment. Interest in ...