Epithelial cells are the most common cell type in all animals, forming the sheets and tubes
that compose most organs and tissues. Apical–basal polarity is essential for epithelial cell …

How the shape of embryos and organs emerges during development is a fundamental
question that has fascinated scientists for centuries. Tissue dynamics arise from a small set …

Tissue and organ development during embryogenesis relies on the collective and
coordinated action of many cells. Recent studies have revealed that tissue material …

During embryogenesis tissue layers undergo morphogenetic flow rearranging and folding
into specific shapes. While developmental biology has identified key genes and local …

A primary challenge in tissue engineering is to recapitulate both the structural and functional
features of whole tissues and organs. In vivo, patterning of the body plan and constituent …

Evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo-Devo for short, has become an established field
that, broadly speaking, seeks to understand how changes in development drive major …

The synchronous cleavage divisions of early embryogenesis require coordination of the cell-
cycle oscillator, the dynamics of the cytoskeleton, and the cytoplasm. Yet, it remains unclear …

Although rigidity and jamming transitions have been widely studied in physics and material
science, their importance in a number of biological processes, including embryo …

The development of multicellular organisms is controlled by highly dynamic molecular and
cellular processes organized in spatially restricted patterns. Recent advances in …

The Erk mitogen-activated protein kinase plays diverse roles in animal development. Its
widespread reuse raises a conundrum: when a single kinase like Erk is activated, how does …