Collective cell migration is a key driver of embryonic development, wound healing, and
some types of cancer invasion. Here, we provide a physical perspective of the mechanisms …

Tissue surface tension is one of the key parameters that govern tissue rearrangement,
shaping, and segregation within various compartments during organogenesis, wound …

Mathematical and computational models can assist in gaining an understanding of cell
behavior at many levels of organization. Here, we review models in the literature that focus …

Collective cell migration occurs in a diversity of physiological processes such as wound
healing, cancer metastasis, and embryonic morphogenesis. In the collective context …

Collective alignment of cell populations is a commonly observed phenomena in biology. An
important example are aligning fibroblasts in healthy or scar tissue. In this work we derive …

Key to collective cell migration is the ability of cells to rearrange their position with respect to
their neighbors. Recent theory and experiments demonstrate that cellular rearrangements …

Wounds can be produced when cells and tissues are subjected to excessive forces, for
instance, under pathological conditions or nonphysiological loading. However, the cellular …

Complex tissue flows in epithelia are driven by intra-and inter-cellular processes that
generate, maintain, and coordinate mechanical forces. There has been growing evidence …

Although collective cell migration (CCM) is a highly coordinated migratory mode,
perturbations in the form of jamming state transitions and vice versa often occur even in 2D …

Epithelial tissues respond strongly to the mechanical stress caused by collective cell
migration and are able to regulate it, which is important for biological processes such as …