This work reviews the present position of and surveys future perspectives in the physics of
chaotic advection: the field that emerged three decades ago at the intersection of fluid …

Motile cilia are slender, hair-like cellular appendages that spontaneously oscillate under the
action of internal molecular motors and are typically found in dense arrays. These active …

The systematic breaking of left–right body symmetry is a familiar feature of human
physiology. In humans and many animals, this process originates with asymmetric fluid flow …

Internal organs are asymmetrically positioned inside the body. Embryonic motile cilia play
an essential role in this process by generating a directional fluid flow inside the vertebrate …

The technique of differential dynamic microscopy is extended here, showing that it can
provide a powerful and objective method of video analysis for optical microscopy videos of …

The method of regularized stokeslets is extensively used in biological fluid dynamics due to
its conceptual simplicity and meshlessness. This simplicity carries a degree of cost in …

Cilia and centrosomes of eukaryotic cells play important roles in cell movement, fluid
transport, extracellular sensing, and chromosome division. The physiological functions of …

An efficient, accurate, and flexible numerical method is proposed for the solution of the
swimming problem of one or more autophoretic particles in the purely diffusive limit. The …

Background: Motile cilia in the “organ of asymmetry” create directional fluid flows that are
vital for left–right (LR) asymmetric patterning of vertebrate embryos. Organ function often …

Reduction in the length of motile cilia in the zebrafish left–right organizer (LRO), also known
as Kupffer's vesicle, has a large impact on left–right development. Here we demonstrate …