When pairs of cells collide, which one wins? The faster cell, the more adherent, the more protrusive? Something else? Or is the outcome just unpredictable? Answers in a new preprint by student Pedrom Zadeh from the group: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pedrom built a model of cells crawling on an adhesive substrate, starting from including some basic physics - surface tension and adhesion to the substrate - and then adding protrusion at the front. Changing these properties changes cell shape, speed, etc:

@diffusiveblob I believe that @VKchoux and #alexandreKabla who did beautiful modeling for our work will definitely enjoy reading your work too.

@diffusiveblob Looks interesting, looking forward to reading it!

@diffusiveblob What if the cells are flowing, instead of crawling on a adhesive substrate? Can we control the trajectory of cells by controlled hitting by some other particles ? At what conditions the cells disrupt?

@diffusiveblob Wow! How do you develope the equation of motion?