Highlights•The Caenorhabditis elegans motor circuit has a nearly complete connectome.•
Neurogenetic studies are unveiling a rich and complex set of signaling relationships …

Biological materials such as extracellular matrix scaffolds, cancer cells, and tissues are often
assumed to respond elastically for simplicity; the viscoelastic response is quite commonly …

Developing microscale sensors capable of force measurements down to the scale of
piconewtons is of fundamental importance for a wide range of applications. To date …

Superhydrophobicity is a remarkable surface property found in nature and mimicked in
many engineering applications, including anti-wetting, anti-fogging, and anti-fouling …

Label-free, non-contact imaging with mechanical contrast and optical sectioning is a
substantial challenge in microscopy. Spontaneous Brillouin scattering microscopy meets this …

Development of the C. elegans gonad has long been studied as a model of organogenesis
driven by collective cell migration. A somatic cell named the distal tip cell (DTC) is thought to …

Limbless locomotors, from microscopic worms to macroscopic snakes, traverse complex,
heterogeneous natural environments typically using undulatory body wave propagation …

Animals use a nervous system for locomotion in some stage of their life cycle. The nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans, a major animal model for almost all fields of experimental biology …

Descending signals from the brain play critical roles in controlling and modulating
locomotion kinematics. In the Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system, descending AVB …

Gas bubbles present in liquids underpin many natural phenomena and human-developed
technologies that improve the quality of life. Since all living organisms are predominantly …