Microorganisms are a promising means to address many societal sustainability challenges
owing to their ability to thrive in diverse environments and interface with the microscale …

Several immune cell types (neutrophils, eosinophils, T cells, and innate-like lymphocytes)
display coordinated migration patterns when a population, formed of individually responding …

Injury induces systemic responses, but their functions remain elusive. Mechanisms that can
rapidly synchronize wound responses through long distances are also mostly unknown …

Neutrophils collectively migrate to sites of injury and infection. How these swarms are
coordinated to ensure the proper level of recruitment is unknown. Using an ex vivo model of …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a crucial role as signaling molecules in both plant and
animal cells, enabling rapid responses to various stimuli. Among the many cellular …

Neutrophil swarming is an emergent host defense mechanism triggered by targets larger
than a single neutrophil's capacity to phagocytose. Swarming synergizes neutrophil …

Cells act as building blocks of multicellular organisms, forming higher-order structures at
different biological scales. Niches, tissues and, ultimately, entire organisms consist of single …

Morphogen gradients are a central concept in developmental biology. Their formation often
involves the secretion of morphogens from a local source, that spread by diffusion in the cell …

The on-chip large-scale-integration of genetically programmed artificial cells capable of
exhibiting collective expression patterns is important for fundamental research and …

Regeneration requires the collective effort of multiple organ systems. A recent study of
planarian whole-body regeneration finds that Erk kinase activity propagates rapidly across …