Graphical Simulation of Gut Coiling (IMAGE)

Harvard University

Graphical Simulation of Gut Coiling

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Top: The researchers produced a graphical simulation of gut looping in a chick embryo (stage E16), using a model based on geometry, the mechanical properties of the tissues, and the relative growth rate of the gut tube and the mesentery. Bottom: An actual chick gut (E16).

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Image courtesy of T. Savin and A. Shyer.

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