Low magnification (10X) shows healing of a large wound. Collective cell migration allows marginal cell lamellipodia to meet across the wound gap, followed by an actomyosin cable contraction. Images were captured every 11 seconds. Image credit: Jocelyn Mal (VIDEO)

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Low magnification (10X) shows healing of a large wound. Collective cell migration allows marginal cell lamellipodia to meet across the wound gap, followed by an actomyosin cable contraction. Images were captured every 11 seconds. Image credit: Jocelyn Malamy

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Image credit: Jocelyn Malamy

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