Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Confinement discerns swarmers from planktonic bacteria

   Weijie Chen et al.

   For the same bacterial strain, the swarming phenotype can be biophysically discerned from swimming phenotype based on the motion pattern under circular confinement on a soft agar.
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Mesoscale phase separation of chromatin in the nucleus

   Gaurav Bajpai et al.
3. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Flagellar energetics from high-resolution imaging of beating patterns in tethered mouse sperm

   Ashwin Nandagiri et al.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Optimal evolutionary decision-making to store immune memory

   Oskar H Schnaack, Armita Nourmohammad
5. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Quantitative analyses reveal extracellular dynamics of Wnt ligands in Xenopus embryos

   Yusuke Mii et al.
6. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   The biomechanical role of extra-axonemal structures in shaping the flagellar beat of Euglena gracilis

   Giancarlo Cicconofri et al.

   The 'spinning lasso' geometry of Euglena's beating flagellum is revealed, and a model based on the antagonistic forces exchanged by axoneme and paraflagellar rod is proposed to explain its emergence.
7. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   How cells determine the number of polarity sites

   Jian-geng Chiou et al.
8. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Flagella: A new kind of beat

   Kirsty Y Wan

   New mathematical model reveals how the flagella of some single-celled algae generate a lasso-like beat pattern that propels the cell through water.
9. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Exceptional stability of a perilipin on lipid droplets depends on its polar residues, suggesting multimeric assembly

   Manuel Giménez-Andrés et al.

   The amphipathic helix of perilipin 4 relies on the organization of its polar residues to form a remarkably immobile and stable protein layer on the surface of lipid droplets.
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems

    Robust, coherent, and synchronized circadian clock-controlled oscillations along Anabaena filaments

    Rinat Arbel-Goren et al.

    Noisy circadian clocks in Anabaena, coupled by cell-cell communication, display high spatio-temporal coherence and can be robustly described by incorporating demographic noise in a theoretical model of coupled clock arrays.