Summary: A reaction-diffusion mechanism recapitulates pattern emergence in an in vitro model of neuromesodermal progenitors under a variety of boundary and geometrical perturbations.

Tissues rely on supracellular signals to coordinate their cells over a long range. Two such tissue-scale cues are calcium waves and patterns of cell-cell alignment or nematic order. During wound…

During embryogenesis, morphogen signalling is known to pattern tissues as they remodel. Using genetic and optogenetic perturbations, together with theoretical frameworks of phase transitions and bioch...

Autorino et al. report a feedback loop between Nodal signalling and tissue phase transitions in zebrafish embryos. Nodal alters adhesion, triggering tissue rigidification and reduced porosity, which l...

Active nematics offer a versatile continuum framework for nonequilibrium collective phenomena, such as collective cell migration and tissue morphogenesis. However, the dynamic evolution of active…

A comparative analysis of cnidarian larval morphogenesis combined with active surface theory identifies a set of mesoscale mechanical modules that predict species-specific shapes. Manipulating these m...

A comparative analysis of cnidarian larval morphogenesis combined with active surface theory identifies a set of mesoscale mechanical modules that predict species-specific shapes. Manipulating these modules reprograms morphology, revealing how variation in tissue-scale mechanics underlies morphological diversity.

Summary: Tissue material phase transitions are classically thought to regulate tissue deformability. This Review emphasises their unexpected roles in directly influencing growth and patterning signall...

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Shape changes are ubiquitous in biology, from cytokinesis at the single cell scale to tissue-scale morphogenesis involving coordinated changes in hundreds of cells. In all cases, morphogenesis is powe...

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft richtet einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich zur männlichen Unfruchtbarkeit ein und verlängert einen etablierten Verbund zu zellulären Grenzflächen. Insgesamt fließe...

In Münster, der Stadt des Westfälischen Friedens, haben sich die Physikalischen Gesellschaften von Japan und Deutschland im Quantenjahr 2025 mit einer gemeinsamen „Erklärung für die Zukunft“ an die Öf...

Microfluidics involves the manipulation of flows at the microscale, typically requiring external power sources to generate pressure gradients. Alte...