When the Community Silences Disruptive Elements: Multiscale Mechanical Coupling Buffers Morphogenetic Imprecisions.

How the high degree of shape reproducibility is conferred between individuals remains unclear. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Eritano et al. show that tissue-scale mechanical coupling corrects the intrinsic noise of gene expression pattern and tissue mechanics to ensure the high degree of precision of Drosophila cephalic furrow formation.