When it’s time for an e. coli bacterium to divide, proteins inside the single-celled organism start to chase each other around. “There are two types of proteins doing this, collectively,” said ...

The scientific perspective behind cell pattern formation involves observing both the commonly seen principles behind similar cell patterns seen in nature and the visible events of self-organization.

Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Division of Developmental and Cell Biology of the American Society of Zoologists, and held in San Francisco on December 29, 1988. The establishment and role ...

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

Physicists have shown how fluid flows influence the formation of complex patterns. The formation of patterns is a universal phenomenon that underlies fundamental processes in biology. An example are ...

1. Organizer, organize thyself -- Part I. Watching Plants Grow: 2. Branching : how do plants get it started? -- 3. Whorled structures -- 4. Dichotomous branching -- 5. Micrasterias and computing ...

In developmental cell biology, the phrase “pattern formation” is used in reference to the propagation of complex organizations of cell fates in time and space. Pattern formation is mainly controlled ...