Physics of Living Systems

Physics of Living Systems

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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Collective epithelial migration mediated by the unbinding of hexatic defects

    Dimitrios Krommydas, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Observation of persister cell histories reveals diverse modes of survival in antibiotic persistence

    Miki Umetani, Miho Fujisawa ... Yuichi Wakamoto
    Time-lapse analyses of millions of antibiotic-stressed Escherichia coli characterize the diverse single-cell dynamics of persister cells that depend on antibiotics, culture conditions, and pre-exposure history.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Optimal information gain at the onset of habituation to repeated stimuli

    Giorgio Nicoletti, Matteo Bruzzone ... Daniel Maria Busiello
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Spiral-eyes: A soft active matter model of in vivo corneal epithelial cell migration

    Kaja Kostanjevec, Rastko Sknepnek ... Silke Henkes
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Magnetotactic Bacteria Optimally Navigate Natural Pore Networks

    Alexander P Petroff, Julia Hernandez ... Nina Radchenko-Hannafin
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Imaging of brain electric field networks with spatially resolved EEG

    Lawrence R Frank, Vitaly L Galinsky ... Antigona Martinez
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Incomplete
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Physiological magnetic field strengths help magnetotactic bacteria navigate in simulated sediments

    Agnese Codutti, Mohammad A Charsooghi ... Stefan Klumpp
    Microfluidics experiments and simulations show that magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the geomagnetic field strength for optimal navigation in sediment environments.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Exploiting fluctuations in gene expression to detect causal interactions between genes

    Euan Joly-Smith, Mir Mikdad Talpur ... Andreas Hilfinger
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Modeling collective behavior in groups of mice housed under semi-naturalistic conditions

    Xiaowen Chen, Maciej Winiarksi ... Aleksandra M Walczak
    The social structure of interactions in freely behaving animals predicts the effects of perturbing the neural plasticity of one individual on group sociability.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Responses to membrane potential-modulating ionic solutions measured by magnetic resonance imaging of cultured cells and in vivo rat cortex

    Kyeongseon Min, Sungkwon Chung ... Jang-Yeon Park
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
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Highlights

    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Flagella: A new kind of beat

    Kirsty Y Wan
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Cancer: Cells under pressure

    Dhiraj Indana, Ovijit Chaudhuri
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Modelling biomolecular condensates

    Furqan Dar, Rohit Pappu

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    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
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    Ecole Normale Superieure, France
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