Thrilled to see our #DCM paper out in @cp-newton.bsky.social! 🎉
How do cells self-organize into complex patterns so quickly during development?
We show that #directed #cell #migration — chemotaxis, durotaxis, differential adhesion — is a surprisingly fast & versatile patterning engine.
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Dagmar Iber & CoBi
Online now: Directed cell migration is a versatile mechanism for rapid developmental pattern formation #newton #physics
Several mathematical models have been developed to describe pattern formation in biological tissues: the Turing, Cahn-Hilliard, Swift-Hohenberg, and chemotaxis models are among the most famous ones. Yu et al. characterize a different class of such models, one in which not chemical species but the cells themselves move and aggregate, collectively termed directed cell migration, showing under which conditions this family of models has the potential to explain rapid biological-patterning processes using theory and accessible simulations.
