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Humans can predict and optimally plan goal-directed dynamic walking tasks that have transient events such as negotiating a sidewalk curb.

Integrated live cell imaging and image analyses in the framework of transition path theories identify epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition proceeds through parallel paths.

The integration of biplanar X-ray videos with 3D X-ray particle tracking revealed that fish use a combination of intraoral 'central jet' waterflow pattern and inertia to guide food toward the digestive tract during suction feeding.

Studies of bacterial chemotaxis reveal how limitations in single-cell sensing of stimuli influence large-scale population morphology.

Combined optogenetic and computer modeling approaches reveal how mechanical bistability of the mesoderm epithelium works jointly with apical constriction to facilitate mesoderm invagination in Drosophila, a well-characterized model for epithelial folding.

New imaging approaches question a long-standing model for how the eyes of fruit flies acquire their geometric patterning.

Computational modelling predicts spatial segregation of different types of nuclear transport receptors in assemblies of nuclear pore proteins, lending support to the idea of separate transport pathways in the nuclear pore complex as a way to enhance transport efficiency.

A computational framework enables the inference of hydrodynamic continuum models for collective cell migration from live-cell imaging data recorded in zebrafish embryos.

Effective navigation of odor plumes in the wild requires that animals sense multiple temporal aspects of odor signals, which are encoded naturally by neurons in the fly olfactory circuit.

The regulatory subunit of protein kinase A (PKA) can both activate and suppress the PKA activity at the plasma membrane, with its graded membrane localization capable of inducing a switch in cell migration.