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“Crowd Control” Turning Cells into Organs via Collective Migration

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Subcellular-scale<br />

Morphogenesis<br />

Morphogenesis is process by which cells/tissues/organs are shaped.<br />

Shape depends on dynamic interactions at different scales.<br />

Cell-Scale<br />

Tissue-Scale<br />

Many tissues are shaped through the directed migration of constituent cells.<br />

Cell migration is a ‘shape’ problem that spans all three levels of scale.

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