- According to the journal Nature Communications, A new geometric shape has been discovered by the Researchers from the University of Seville, Spain. It has been named ‘scutoid’ which a is a basic three-dimensional shape, like a cube or a sphere but not like either of those things.
- Some scientists have termed it as a twisted prism.
- This shape fold and curve the epithelia, which lines the outer surfaces of organs. What matters is that mathematicians had never before conceived of the scutoid, much less given it a name.
- The shape is a building block of multicellular organisms.
- Its existence allows us to understand the fundamentals of morphogenesis and development—how cells act together when they’re forming and developing.
- The scutoid is six-sided at the top, five-sided on the bottom with one triangular side. Why it has been so complex to define is because epithelial cells must move and join together to organize themselves and give the organs their final shape
