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Transitions between solid-like and fluid-like states in living tissues have been found in steps of embryonic development and in stages of disease progression. Our current understanding of these transitions has been guided by experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-20 Steven J. Chisolm , Emily Guo , Vignesh Subramaniam , Kyle D. Schulze , Thomas E. Angelini

Collective cell migration plays an essential role in various biological processes, such as development or cancer proliferation. While cell-cell interactions are clearly key determinants of collective cell migration -- in addition to…

Cell cultures exhibit rich and complex behaviors driven by dynamic metabolic interactions among cells. In this work, we present a model that captures these interactions through a framework inspired by statistical mechanics. Using Monte…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 A. R. Batista-Tomás , C. Díaz-Faloh , R. Mulet

Enzymatic molecules that actively support many cellular processes, including transport, cell division and cell motility, are known as motor proteins or molecular motors. Experimental studies indicate that they interact with each other and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniel Celis-Garza , Hamid Teimouri , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

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 on eukaryotic cell motility at 3 size scales: intracellular…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-27 Andreas Buttenschön , Leah Edelstein-Keshet

Three-body and four-body interactions have been directly measured in a colloidal system comprised of three (or four) charged colloidal particles. Two of the particles have been confined by means of a scanned laser tweezers to a line-shaped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Dobnikar , M. Brunner , Jörg Baumgartl , H. H. von Grünberg , C. Bechinger

Dense monolayers of living cells display intriguing relaxation dynamics, reminiscent of soft and glassy materials close to the jamming transition, and migrate collectively when space is available, as in wound healing or in cancer invasion.…

We show that polar molecules driven by microwave fields give naturally rise to strong three-body interactions, while the two-particle interaction can be independently controlled and even switched off. The derivation of these effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 H. P. Büchler , A. Micheli , P. Zoller

A large class of mesoscopic or macroscopic flocking theories are coarse-grained from microscopic models that feature binary interactions as the chief aligning mechanism. However while such theories seemingly predict the existence of polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-06 Purba Chatterjee , Nigel Goldenfeld

Population dynamics deals with the collective phenomena of living organisms, and it has attracted much attention since it is expected to explain how not only living organisms but also human beings have been adapted to varying environments.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-23 Hideyuki Miyahara

Collective motion of cells is common in many physiological processes, including tissue development, repair, and tumor formation. Recent experiments have shown that certain malignant cancer cells form clusters in a chemoattractant gradient,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Katherine Copenhagen , Gema Malet-Engra , Weimiao Yu , Giorgio Scita , Nir Gov , Ajay Gopinathan

The dispersal of cells from an initially constrained location is a crucial aspect of many physiological phenomena ranging from morphogenesis to tumour spreading. In such processes, the way cell-cell interactions impact the motion of single…

There are numerous scenarios in which populations of cells migrate in crowded environments. Typical examples include wound healing, cancer growth and embryo development. In these crowded environments cells are able to interact with each…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-03 Christian A. Yates , George Chappelle

Collective human movement is a hallmark of complex systems, exhibiting emergent order across diverse settings, from pedestrian flows to biological collectives. In high-speed scenarios, alignment interactions ensure efficient flow and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-03 Debasish Sarker , Yi Zhang , Lynn K. Perry , Daniel S. Messinger , Chaoming Song

During development, highly ordered structures emerge as cells collectively coordinate with each other. While recent advances have clarified how individual cells process and respond to external signals, understanding collective cellular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Ashutosh Tripathi , Jörn Dunkel , Dominic J. Skinner

We present the first direct measurement of three-body interactions in a colloidal system comprised of three charged colloidal particles. Two of the particles have been confined by means of a scanned laser tweezers to a line-shaped optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-01-28 J. Dobnikar , M. Brunner , H. H. von Grünberg , C. Bechinger

We present a new kinetic equation for cell migration driven by mechanical interactions with the substrate, an effect not previously captured in kinetic models, and essential for explaining observed collective behaviors such as those in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Benoît Perthame , Francesco Salvarani , Shugo Yasuda

Quantifying the outcomes of cells collisions is a crucial step in building the foundations of a kinetic theory of living matter. Here, we develop a mechanical theory of such collisions by first representing individual cells as extended…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Pierre Recho , Thibaut Putelat , Lev Truskinovsky

Various multicellular tissues show chiral morphology. Experimental studies have shown this can originate from cell chirality. However, no theory has been proposed to connect the cellular chiral torque and multicellular chiral morphogenesis.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-04 Takaki Yamamoto , Tetsuya Hiraiwa , Tatsuo Shibata

In this paper, we study collective interaction dynamics emerging in the game of football-soccer. To do so, we surveyed a database containing body-sensors traces measured during three professional football matches, where we observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-18 A. Chacoma , N. Almeira , J. I. Perotti , O. V. Billoni