iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ian Wong Lab at Brown University @ianywonglab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Check out our News and Views in Nature Nanotech led by postdocs @htjeong.bsky.social and @jiwon-kim.bsky.social , highlighting deformable microparticles that transduce mechanical compression into MRI contrast, mapping dynamic stresses deep inside tumors @natnano.nature.com rdcu.be/XyYh3fHsAD4a

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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Partial EMT Drives Persistent Collective Migration via Collision Guidance in Heterogeneous Populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Jiwon Kim @jiwon-kim.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Our thread is now up at @epimechfc.bsky.social 💗 Take a look if you are interested in how a living tissue knows how to sculpt itself!

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Nimesh Chahare @onenimesa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Have you ever thought about inflating tissues? Or maybe quickly deflating those inflated tissues? New #EpithelialMechanics pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧵 with pressure control, multiscale buckling, controlled wrinkling

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Brown University School of Engineering @brownengineering.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Researchers from the @ianywonglab.bsky.social are working toward understanding the dynamics of how tissues develop, as well as how cancer cells break free of tumors to spread around the body, by unpacking how cells interact with each other and their surroundings. www.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

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The shape of things to come: How spheroid geometry guides multicellular orbiting and invasion

In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers show how cells orbit and reconfigure their surroundings to venture outward fro...

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Ian Wong Lab at Brown University @ianywonglab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

not quite the correct geometry, but puppy collective migration seems to have analogies with epithelial spheroids ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzg-...

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Hilarious Puppies Spin Around Water Bowl!

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Ian Wong Lab at Brown University @ianywonglab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Published online today in Nature Physics - we show how multicellular spheroids round up and orbit, driving a deterministic transition to 3D matrix invasion at predictable locations. Amazing work from @jiwon-kim.bsky.social, @htjeong.bsky.social and collaborators www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jiwon Kim @jiwon-kim.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Out today in Nature Physics! doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was highlighted by Brown News: brown.edu/news/2026-01... Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors Hyuntae @htjeong.bsky.social and Carles, and deepest gratitude to my mentor Prof. Ian Y. Wong @ianywonglab.bsky.social for leading this journey. 🧵

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