aka "Surfing one's own wave"

In this preprint, Pierre and I show that a #cell which is not polarised at all but is only #treadmilling in a symmetric way can spontaneously start to migrate if it is spread on an sufficiently soft substrate.

This is something like #surfing, as the cell is carried away by an #elastic #wave... which it has itself created with its treadmilling!

#cellMigration #motility #mechanobiology #migration