Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have
been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self …

Communities of epithelial cells communicate through intercellular interactions, allowing
them to coordinate their motility, which plays a key role in homeostasis, morphogenesis and …

Pathological morphological changes in tumor tissue enable collective cancer cell
unjamming, a cellular motility transition. However, fundamental questions remain: Is …

Actomyosin machinery endows cells with contractility at a single-cell level. However, within a
monolayer, cells can be contractile or extensile based on the direction of pushing or pulling …

Epithelial tissues (epithelia) remove excess cells through extrusion, preventing the
accumulation of unnecessary or pathological cells. The extrusion process can be triggered …

Most spindle-shaped cells (including smooth muscles and sarcomas) organize in vivo into
well-aligned 'nematic'domains,,, creating intrinsic topological defects that may be used to …

How a single bacterium becomes a colony of many thousand cells is important in
biomedicine and food safety. Much is known about the molecular and genetic bases of this …

A landmark of turbulence is the emergence of universal scaling laws, such as Kolmogorov's
E (q)~ q− 5∕ 3 scaling of the kinetic energy spectrum of inertial turbulence with the …

Microswimmers exhibit an intriguing, highly-dynamic collective motion with large-scale
swirling and streaming patterns, denoted as active turbulence–reminiscent of classical high …

There is now growing evidence of the emergence and biological functionality of liquid crystal
features, including nematic order and topological defects, in cellular tissues. However, how …