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 …

Reproducible tissue morphology is a fundamental feature of embryonic development. To
ensure such robustness during tissue morphogenesis, inherent noise in biological …

We perform a bidimensional Stokes experiment in an active cellular material: an
autonomously migrating monolayer of Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells flows …

The left-right organizer in zebrafish embryos, Kupffer's Vesicle (KV), is a simple organ that
undergoes programmed asymmetric cell shape changes that are necessary to establish the …

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 …

Cells cooperate as groups to achieve structure and function at the tissue level, during which
specific material characteristics emerge. Analogous to phase transitions in classical physics …

Scientific research is not a showcase of his own talent or own resources, it is a chance to
improve common knowledge on certain topics for the collective well-being. A researcher …

Collective cell migration drives the formation of complex organ systems as well as certain
tumour invasions and wound healing processes. A characteristic feature of many migrating …

Organs and tissues must change shape in precise ways during embryonic development to
execute their functions. Multiple mechanisms including biochemical signaling pathways and …

Cells cooperate as groups to achieve functions at the tissue level, and specific structural
characteristics emerge from the local organization of neighboring cells. Analogous to …