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Controlling tissue size by active fracture.

Wei Wang¹, Brian A Camley^1,2

¹Johns Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

Physical Review. E

|April 18, 2026

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Cell clusters fracture and grow. Physical factors like cell speed and division location control cluster size. Restricted division or central fracture improves size regulation.

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Area of Science:

Physics of biological systems
Cellular mechanics
Developmental biology

Background:

Cellular clusters, from developing organs to cancerous growths, exhibit both growth and fragmentation.
Understanding the physical factors governing cluster fracture and final size is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a physical framework for cell cluster fragmentation and size control.
To investigate the impact of cell motility, division patterns, and mechanics on cluster dynamics.

Main Methods:

Developed a one-dimensional active particle model for fragmenting cell clusters.
Analytically computed break rates based on cell speed, persistence, and junction properties.
Derived cluster size distributions for different cell division scenarios and validated with 2D simulations.

Main Results:

Break rate is dependent on cell speed, persistence, and junction properties.
Cluster size distributions are determined by the ratio of break rate to growth rate.
Restricting cell division to cluster boundaries or centralizing fracture enhances size control.
Derived a universal cluster survival probability dependent only on the cell division rate.

Conclusions:

Cell motility and mechanics quantitatively regulate organ or organism size.
The study links collective active escape physics to biological size control mechanisms.
Findings offer insights into optimizing size regulation in biological systems.