MicroMotility: state of the art, recent accomplishments and perspectives on the mathematical modeling of bio-motility at microscopic scales
| Autor: | Julia M. Yeomans, Eran Sharon, Antonio DeSimone, Giovanni Noselli, Cristian Micheletti, Roberto Cerbino, Daniele Agostinelli, Juan C. Del Alamo, Stephanie Höhn |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Agostinelli, Daniele, Cerbino, Roberto, Del Alamo, Juan C., De Simone, Antonio, Höhn, Stephanie, Micheletti, Cristian, Noselli, Giovanni, Sharon, Eran, Yeomans, Julia |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Computer science
Motility cell motility 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences knotted dna 0103 physical sciences Settore ICAR/08 - Scienza delle Costruzioni 010306 general physics Mathematical Physics Cell sheet Organism unicellular swimmers adhesive locomotion active matter knotted DNA unjamming transition cell sheet folding topological defects 030304 developmental biology Cognitive science 0303 health sciences unicellular swimmer Applied Mathematics lcsh:T57-57.97 Active matter lcsh:Applied mathematics. Quantitative methods Dense cell Analysis |
| Zdroj: | Mathematics in Engineering, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 230-252 (2020) |
| DOI: | 10.3934/mine.2020011 |
| Popis: | Mathematical modeling and quantitative study of biological motility (in particular, of motility at microscopic scales) is producing new biophysical insight and is offering opportunities for new discoveries at the level of both fundamental science and technology. These range from the explanation of how complex behavior at the level of a single organism emerges from body architecture, to the understanding of collective phenomena in groups of organisms and tissues, and of how these forms of swarm intelligence can be controlled and harnessed in engineering applications, to the elucidation of processes of fundamental biological relevance at the cellular and sub-cellular level. In this paper, some of the most exciting new developments in the fields of locomotion of unicellular organisms, of soft adhesive locomotion across scales, of the study of pore translocation properties of knotted DNA, of the development of synthetic active solid sheets, of the mechanics of the unjamming transition in dense cell collectives, of the mechanics of cell sheet folding in volvocalean algae, and of the self-propulsion of topological defects in active matter are discussed. For each of these topics, we provide a brief state of the art, an example of recent achievements, and some directions for future research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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