Month: September 2014

Answering the question of how cells move in a multicellular organism is interesting in itself but may also lead to important applications, such as a better understanding of how metastatic cancer actually spreads. Researchers at NIH, Rochester, and Penn State, have identified a new way for cells to move inside a three-dimensional matrix: by using the cell…Continue Reading How Cells Move in a Multicellular Organism

Understanding complex nonlinear behaviors such as turbulence or space-time disorder is a huge challenge. Being able to describe these phenomena in terms of interacting objects, such as particles, defects, or solitons, is conceptually pleasing and exciting. In an article that just appeared in Physical Review Letters, an international team of researchers reports the observation of “soliton…Continue Reading Soliton Turbulence