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physics.bio-ph2016★ 33 cited
Collective chemotaxis through noisy multicellular gradient sensing
Julien Varennes, Bumsoo Han, Andrew Mugler
Collective cell migration in response to a chemical cue occurs in many biological processes such as morphogenesis and cancer metastasis. Clusters of migratory cells in these system…
physics.bio-ph2016★ 47 cited
Fundamental limits to collective concentration sensing in cell populations
Sean Fancher, Andrew Mugler
The precision of concentration sensing is improved when cells communicate. Here we derive the physical limits to concentration sensing for cells that communicate over short distanc…