The past decade has witnessed a rapid growth in understanding of the pivotal roles of
mechanical stresses and physical forces in cell biology. As a result, an integrated view of …

The ability of epithelial monolayers to self-organize into a dynamic polarized state, where
cells migrate in a uniform direction, is essential for tissue regeneration, development, and …

Understanding if and how the chirality of biomolecules is transferred across scales into
larger components and active processes remains elusive. For instance, flagellated bacteria …

The importance of physical forces in the morphogenesis, homeostatic function, and
pathological dysfunction of multicellular tissues is being increasingly characterized, both …

In tissue formation and repair, the epithelium undergoes complex patterns of motion driven
by the active forces produced by each cell. Although the principles governing how the forces …

Many critical biological processes, like wound healing, require densely packed cell
monolayers/tissues to transition from a jammed solid-like to a fluid-like state. Although …

Odd viscosity is a property of chiral active fluids with broken time-reversal and parity
symmetries. We show that the flow of such a fluid around a rotating axisymmetric body is …

Living systems are chiral on multiple scales, from constituent biopolymers to large scale
morphology, and their active mechanics is both driven by chiral components and serves to …

Controlling the motion of active matter is a central issue that has recently garnered
significant attention in fields ranging from nonequilibrium physics to chemical engineering …

There is now growing evidence of collective turbulentlike motion of cells in dense tissues.
However, how to control and harness this collective motion is an open question. We …