Associate Professor Ian Y. Wong (@ianywonglab.bsky.social) has been named to the editorial board of the @annualreviews.bsky.social of Biomedical Engineering. engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-07...

Wong joins Editorial Board of Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

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🧪 @aicjanelia.bsky.social and @scientistrachel.bsky.social have just published a new quantitative tool, OpticalFlow3D, for tracking amorphous motion in 3D. Try it out and let us know what you think! tinyurl.com/OpticalFlow3D

looking forward to my online talk for the Journal of Biological Physics on 23 July at 4:00 PM (Europe/Berlin). cassyni.com/events/GVxaf...

New preprint! We show all-electrical, label-free imaging of single cell migration on a CMOS chip - no optics whatsoever! Fun collaboration led by Hyuntae Jeong with Pushkaraj Joshi and Jacob Rosenstein @htjeong.bsky.social @brownengineering.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Label-Free All-Electrical Tracking of Individual and Collective Cell Migration on a Megapixel CMOS Capacitance Sensor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.16.731623v1

Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology! The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?

Rodriguez, C., Jeong, H., Kim, J., ... & Guo, M. (2026). Expression of vimentin intermediate filaments in epithelial cells promotes cell migration and cell matrix interaction in 3D. Biophysical Journal. #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Delighted to share our latest views on our favourite cancer cells Well done @ritoghose.bsky.social 👏 @icr.ac.uk @breastcancernow.bsky.social Amoeboid cancer cells at a glance journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Amoeboid cancer cells at a glance

Summary: Amoeboid cancer cells exploit actomyosin contractility, metabolic adaptability and immune evasion to drive metastasis, representing a distinct and therapeutically targetable state within the ...

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Enjoyed a stimulating cell migration + math bio conference at the Banff International Research Station. Many thanks to the organizers and congratulations to @htjeong.bsky.social and @jiwon-kim.bsky.social for great talks! Look forward to visiting again soon!

Editor Spotlight: Leah Edelstein-Keshet University of British Columbia “MBoC provides excellent examples of quantitative reasoning in cell biology and helps advance this growing area of the field.” Explore the journal and submission opportunities at molbiolcell.org

Very nice cover picture for the next GRC in #CellMigration, chaired by @robinsall.bsky.social #AnaMariaLennon & @djcohen.bsky.social www.grc.org/directed-cel...

What does it take to truly understand #cancer in all of its complexity? Delighted to share our Review in Cell "Cancer ecosystems: A dynamic interplay across scales" with Daniela Quail, where we propose a multi-scale framework connecting tumor ecology with physiology 🧪⚕️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Tumor cells often metastasize in clusters with other cells, offering novel targets for treatments. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4vGFV50

Much remains to be explored. What happens when the tissue geometry is more complex? Does this occur more broadly for other biomaterials? Could we one day control collective orbiting for development and disease? We are excited to chat about epithelial mechanobiology www.instagram.com/reel/DQUBGUE...

How does an orbiting spherical tissue suddenly break symmetry and sprout invasive strands? We can predict this behavior from the initial morphology! Hi, I’m @jiwon-kim.bsky.social from @ianywonglab.bsky.social.

Partial EMT Drives Persistent Collective Migration via Collision Guidance in Heterogeneous Populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.714519v1

Kim, J., Jeong, H., Falcó, C., Hruska, A. M., Martinson, W. D., Marzoratti, A., ... & Wong, I. Y. (2026). Collective transitions from orbiting to matrix invasion in three-dimensional multicellular spheroids. Nature Physics, 1-12. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/ChmS1uW

Delighted to announce the Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology (MMB 2026) conference in Maui this December 7-11 (mmb2026.org) - continuing a series of Hawaii conferences that bring together thought leaders in tiny technologies to transform biomedicine. Abstracts due July 1, 2026.

Collective migration is not just about leaders at the front, but about coordination across the group. Always exciting to see these dynamics visualized. Many thanks to @jcb.org for featuring our work 🐸🔬🌹

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🔬 From our March issue (rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...): Epithelial neural collectives undergoing #chemotaxis, stained for phospho-#myosin (magenta), #actin (cyan), and nuclei (yellow). From @jorgediazfuentes.bsky.social and @mayorlab.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Of the many impressive acrobatic qualities of cats, perhaps their most spectacular is their ability to right themselves midair so they always seem to land on their feet. The trick lies in a hyperflexible region of their backbone known as the thoracic spine, a new study finds. https://scim.ag/4rlHodw

a temporary addition to the campus architecture..

What music should we play to our cells? This was the start of an amazing journey from @ivaskalab.bsky.social at @turkubioscience.bsky.social with Jasmin Kaivola and collaborators @sarawickstrom.bsky.social and others to explore larynx cancer mechanosensitivity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Restoring the tumour mechanophenotype of vocal fold cancer reverts its malignant properties - Nature Materials

Vocal fold cancer tumours lose some of their malignant traits when mechanically stimulated by physiological stretch or vibrations, mimicking the opening and closing of vocal folds and phonation.

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Snowy night @brownengineering.bsky.social

Today at Cell: A new #HallmarksofCancer review by Doug Hanahan: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... This review marks 25 years since the original seminal Cell review by Hanahan & Robert Weinberg and its impactful follow up in 2011. @cp-cell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social

Hallmarks of cancer—Then and now, and beyond

Hanahan revisits the evolving framework of cancer hallmarks, synthesizing 25 years of conceptual refinement into a multidimensional view of tumor biology. This review highlights how aberrant capabilit...

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and the Brown news release on our Nature Physics paper: www.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

The shape of things to come: How spheroid geometry guides multicellular orbiting and invasion

In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers show how cells orbit and reconfigure their surroundings to venture outward fro...

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Published online today in Nature Physics - we show how multicellular spheroids round up and orbit, driving a deterministic transition to 3D matrix invasion at predictable locations. Amazing work from @jiwon-kim.bsky.social, @htjeong.bsky.social and collaborators www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cell viscosity influences haematogenous dissemination and metastatic extravasation of tumour cells go.nature.com/4jZ8OUu

Cell viscosity influences haematogenous dissemination and metastatic extravasation of tumour cells - Nature Materials

The viscosity of tumour cells is shown to govern their ability to disseminate through the bloodstream and extravasate, establishing a key biomechanical factor of metastasis.

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In @jcb.org, Diaz & @mayorlab.bsky.social show that epithelial & mesenchymal cells navigate chemical cues via fundamentally different force-generating mechanisms, offering new insight into how diverse cell types achieve collective movement during development and disease. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

This octopus-camouflage inspired polymer can change colour and texture

Our paper describing the development of ShapeSpaceExplorer is now out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... The software and documentation is available here: github.com/cmcb-warwick... Explainer thread below.