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    1. Medicine
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Comparable in vivo joint kinematics between self-reported stable and unstable knees after TKA can be explained by muscular adaptation strategies: A retrospective observational study

    Longfeng Rao, Nils Horn ... Pascal Schütz
    Muscle synergies are able to identify muscular adaptation that results from feelings of joint instability, whereas tibiofemoral kinematics are sensitive for detecting acute instability events during functional activities.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    On the importance of statistics in molecular simulations for thermodynamics, kinetics and simulation box size

    Vytautas Gapsys, Bert L de Groot
    The use of adequate statistics is demonstrated to be an essential prerequisite to derive conclusions on thermodynamics and kinetics from molecular simulations.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Progressive enhancement of kinetic proofreading in T cell antigen discrimination from receptor activation to DAG generation

    Derek M Britain, Jason P Town, Orion David Weiner
    A light-controllable ligand is used to probe where in the signaling cascade T cells discriminate self from non-self.
    1. Ecology

    Echolocating toothed whales use ultra-fast echo-kinetic responses to track evasive prey

    Heather Vance, Peter T Madsen ... Mark Johnson
    Echolocating toothed whales can detect and react to sudden prey movements during close approaches with speeds similar to ultra-fast tracking responses in human vision.
    1. Ecology

    Small deviations in kinematics and body form dictate muscle performances in the finely tuned avian downstroke

    Marc E Deetjen, Diana D Chin ... David Lentink
    Doves improve their wingbeat efficacy without elevating maximum pectoralis power by angling their wings mid-downstroke to efficiently generate aerodynamic force while simultaneously tensioning the supracoracoideus tendon to assist the upstroke.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Low-affinity integrin states have faster ligand-binding kinetics than the high-affinity state

    Jing Li, Jiabin Yan, Timothy A Springer
    Faster ligand-binding kinetics of integrin low-affinity states suggests that integrin binding to ligand and intracellular adapters and the actin cytoskeleton precedes their stabilization, together with tensile force, of the high-affinity, extended-open integrin conformation.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Multiple kinesins induce tension for smooth cargo transport

    Marco Tjioe, Saurabh Shukla ... Paul R Selvin
    After developing a force-gliding assay with nanometer and piconewton precision, it is concluded that multiple kinesins driving a single cargo induces tension, resulting in smooth cargo transport, even with roadblocks.
    1. Ecology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Novel adverse outcome pathways revealed by chemical genetics in a developing marine fish

    Elin Sørhus, John P Incardona ... Sissel Jentoft
    Global gene expression analysis unravels the underlying mechanisms for distinct crude oil induced defects in Atlantic haddock eggs and larvae.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Environmental heterogeneity can tip the population genetics of range expansions

    Matti Gralka, Oskar Hallatschek
    Environmental heterogeneity can dramatically reduce the efficacy of selection and alter the neutral evolutionary dynamics in microbial range expansions.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Light-based tuning of ligand half-life supports kinetic proofreading model of T cell signaling

    Doug K Tischer, Orion David Weiner
    Direct control of ligand binding half-life with light shows that lifetime strongly affects T cell signaling.