A group of physicists from Syracuse University recently teamed up with researchers from Columbia University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering to study the developing tissue flow in an embryo that has many similar genes and cell behaviors to that of a human—the fruit fly (Drosophila). The team’s research paper, Anisotropy links cell shapes to tissue flow during convergent extension, was recently published in the prestigious journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America” (PNAS). Read more here.