Collective motion in biological matter

Physics of active matter – Experiments performed at the National Institute of Information and Communications in Kobe, Japan, analyzed by scientists from Japan and France (CEA-Iramis, Saclay), allow to visualize and explain, at the scale of a living cell, the spontaneous emergence of large-scale structures in a population of moving biomolecules. 
The research was published in the journal Nature. (Published on Thursday 22 March 2012)

• [CEA site] Collective motion in biological matter ( In English )
• [CEA site] Mouvements collectifs dans une matière biologique ( In French )