During embryogenesis, organisms acquire their shape given boundary conditions that
impose geometrical, mechanical and biochemical constraints. A detailed integrative …

Vital internal organs display a left-right (LR) asymmetric arrangement that is established
during embryonic development. Disruption of this LR asymmetry—or laterality—can result in …

Epithelial tissues sheath organs and electro-mechanically regulate ion and water transport
to regulate development, homeostasis, and hydrostatic organ pressure. Here, we …

Epithelial tissues act as barriers and, therefore, must repair themselves, respond to
environmental changes and grow without compromising their integrity. Consequently, they …

Morphogenesis depends crucially on the complex rheological properties of cell tissues and
on their ability to maintain mechanical integrity while rearranging at long times. In this paper …

An important open question in the modeling of biological tissues is how to identify the right
scale for coarse-graining, or equivalently, the right number of degrees of freedom. For …

How do biological systems tune emergent properties at the scale of tissues? One class of
such emergent behaviors, important to biological functions such as body-axis elongation …

The symposium “Large-scale biological phenomena arising from small-scale biophysical
processes” at the SICB 2023 Annual General Meeting focused on the cross-disciplinary …

In embryogenesis and cancer invasion, cells collectively migrate as a cluster in 3D tissues.
Many studies have elucidated mechanisms of either individual or collective cell migration on …

The physics of disordered media, from metallic glasses to colloidal suspensions, granular
matter and biological tissues, offers difficult challenges because it often occurs far from …