Increased control of biological growth and form is an essential gateway to transformative
medical advances. Repairing of birth defects, restoring lost or damaged organs, normalizing …

Throughout biology, function is intimately linked with form. Across scales ranging from
subcellular to multiorganismal, the identity and organization of a biological structure's …

Tissue morphogenesis occurs in a complex physicochemical microenvironment with limited
experimental accessibility. This often prevents a clear identification of the processes that …

Mammalian tissue development is an intricate, spatiotemporal process of self-organization
that emerges from gene regulatory networks of differentiating stem cells. A major goal in …

Bioengineering can address many important needs, from transformative biomedicine to
environmental remediation. In addition to practical applications, the construction of new …

In metazoans, living cells achieve capabilities beyond individual cell functionality by
assembling into multicellular tissue structures. These higher-order structures represent …

Mechanisms of Morphogenesis, Third Edition offers a bottom-up discussion of mechanisms
of cell and tissue morphogenesis in a diverse array of organisms, including prokaryotes …

Highlights•Synthetic developmental biology is an emerging area of science that integrates
synthetic biology and developmental biology.•Developmental mechanisms can be …

Multicellular organisms of various complexities self-organize in nature. Organoids are in
vitro 3D structures that display important aspects of the anatomy and physiology of their in …

Cells are inherently conferred with the ability to self-organize into the tissues and organs
comprising the human body. Self-organization can be recapitulated in vitro and recent …