Figure 3.

Scale‐crossing technologies required for understanding self‐organization. Different experimental frameworks are required to quantitate and model the population‐level properties of a large group of interacting cells during self‐organized processes. Scale‐crossing technologies described in the text are able to link functional, spatial and temporal scales. Detailed information at each level of these scales, from single cells to tissues, will help to explain the multicellular dynamic interactions that govern a self‐organized process.