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    • Cellular clusters, including cancerous growths and developing organs, can both grow and fragment.
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    • To develop a framework for understanding cell cluster fragmentation driven by cell motility.
    • To analytically compute the break rate of cell-cell junctions and determine cluster size distributions.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing an active particle model to simulate cell cluster dynamics.
    • Analytically computing the dependence of break rate on cell speed, persistence, and junction properties.
    • Analyzing cluster size distributions under different cell division scenarios.

    Main Results:

    • The break rate of cell-cell junctions is determined by cell speed, persistence, and junction properties.
    • Cluster size distributions depend on the ratio of break rate to growth rate.
    • Size control is improved when cell division is restricted to cluster boundaries or fracture is localized.

    Conclusions:

    • Cell motility and cell-cell mechanics quantitatively regulate organ or organism size.
    • The study links collective active escape physics to biological size control mechanisms.
    • Predicts how motility and mechanics influence cluster size and variability.