[HTML][HTML] Origin of yield stress and mechanical plasticity in biological tissues

AQ Nguyen, J Huang, D Bi - ArXiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During development and under normal physiological conditions, biological tissues are
continuously subjected to substantial mechanical stresses. In response to large …

Avalanche properties at the yielding transition: from externally deformed glasses to active systems

C Villarroel, G Düring - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigated the yielding phenomenon in the quasistatic limit using numerical
simulations of soft particles. Two different deformation scenarios, simple shear (passive) and …

Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres

TH Tan, A Amiri, I Seijo-Barandiaran, MF Staddon… - PRX Life, 2024 - APS
Collective cell dynamics play a crucial role in many developmental and physiological
contexts. While two-dimensional (2D) cell migration has been widely studied, how three …