<ul><li>Recent research emphasizes the role of mechanical forces in tissue development.</li><li>Study by Konstantin Doubrovinski explores how developing fruit fly tissue stretches.</li><li>Previous observations of tissue extension puzzled researchers due to a non-zero exponent.</li><li>Experiments ruled out viscosity as the cause of the non-zero exponent.</li><li>Researchers used ferrofluid droplets to manipulate Drosophila epithelial cells for measurements.</li><li>Observations of power law scaling law confirmed over varying time scales.</li><li>Simulation by Mohamad Ibrahim Cheikh unexpectedly yielded the observed power law.</li><li>Researchers simplified the complex model to a lattice of springs to understand the system.</li><li>Experimental and theoretical curves could be rescaled, supporting the proposed model.</li><li>Findings could have implications beyond fruit flies to other developmental stages and organisms.</li></ul>

A model stretch: explaining the rheology of developing tissue

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