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Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs
Snapshots of a fracturing process that creates the blastocoel cavity, inside which an embryonic mouse will grow. The fluid follows the path of least resistance, preferentially breaking contacts between weaker (red) over tenser (blue) cells.
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Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs

By Clare Watson
February 27, 2026
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Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.