Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Revealing global stoichiometry conservation architecture in cells from Raman spectral patterns

   Ken-ichiro F Kamei, Koseki J Kobayashi-Kirschvink ... Yuichi Wakamoto
2. 1. Ecology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Colony demographics shape nest construction in Camponotus fellah ants

   Harikrishnan Rajendran, Roi Weinberger ... Ofer Feinerman
3. 1. Cancer Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Robust assessment of asymmetric division in colon cancer cells

   Domenico Caudo, Chiara Giannattasio ... Mattia Miotto
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Collective epithelial migration mediated by the unbinding of hexatic defects

   Dimitrios Krommydas, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi
5. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Emergent periodicity in the collective synchronous flashing of fireflies

   Raphael Sarfati, Kunaal Joshi ... Orit Peleg

   Fireflies that gather in swarms synchronize their flashing with rhythmic periodicity and provide insights into a new mechanism for the emergence of synchrony and periodicity.
6. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Quantifying the shape of cells, from Minkowski tensors to p-atic orders

   Lea Happel, Griseldis Oberschelp ... Axel Voigt

   Only rigorous mathematical tools to quantify the shape of cells can guarantee reliable results in coarse-grained descriptions of tissue dynamics.
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Atypical collective oscillatory activity in cardiac tissue uncovered by optogenetics

   Alexander S Teplenin, Nina N Kudryashova ... Tim De Coster
8. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Repeated vaccination with homologous influenza hemagglutinin broadens human antibody responses to unmatched flu viruses

   Yixiang Deng, Melbourne Tang ... Daniel Lingwood

   Classical antibody boosting effects during vaccination are accompanied by natural broadening mechanisms that help enable human antibodies to engage conserved sites of vulnerability on influenza virus.
9. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   The titin N2A-MARP signalosome constrains muscle longitudinal hypertrophy in response to stretch

   Robbert van der Pijl, Jochen Gohlke ... Coen Ottenheijm
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Roles of the membrane-binding motif and the C-terminal domain of RNase E in localization and diffusion in E. coli

    Laura Troyer, Yu-Huan Wang ... Sangjin Kim

    Single-molecule imaging uncovers how distinct membrane-binding motifs and the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain control RNase E’s membrane association and diffusion, linking structural divergence to RNA-processing dynamics in bacteria.