Collagen in cartilage tissues behaves like liquid crystals in a smart phone screen

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have found that collagen changes its crystallinity in response to physical forces, suggesting that the ordered arrangement in collagen molecules of knee cartilage switches from one structural state to another as people walk.
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