Deep learning is becoming an increasingly important tool for image reconstruction in
fluorescence microscopy. We review state-of-the-art applications such as image restoration …

The remarkable processes that characterize living organisms, such as motility, self-healing
and reproduction, are fuelled by a continuous injection of energy at the microscale. The field …

Active crystals are highly ordered structures that emerge from the self-organization of motile
objects, and have been widely studied in synthetic, and bacterial, active matter. Whether …

Life is characterized by a myriad of complex dynamic processes allowing organisms to grow,
reproduce, and evolve. Physical approaches for describing systems out of thermodynamic …

We review the general hydrodynamic theory of active soft materials that is motivated in
particular by biological matter. We present basic concepts of irreversible thermodynamics of …

Cellular mechanisms underlying the development of left–right asymmetry in tissues and
embryos remain obscure. Here, the development of a chiral pattern of actomyosin was …

INTRODUCTION Conventional nonequilibrium systems are composed of inanimate
components whose dynamics is powered by the external input of energy. For example, in a …

Actin is the main protein used by biological cells to adapt their structure and mechanics to
their needs. Cellular adaptation is made possible by molecular processes that strongly …

During animal development, cell-fate-specific changes in gene expression can modify the
material properties of a tissue and drive tissue morphogenesis. While mechanistic insights …

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