Physics of Living Systems

Physics of Living Systems

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Latest articles

    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Fluid mechanics of luminal transport in actively contracting endoplasmic reticulum

    Pyae Hein Htet, Edward Avezov, Eric Lauga
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Feeding Rates in Sessile versus Motile Ciliates are Hydrodynamically Equivalent

    Jingyi Liu, Yi Man ... Eva Kanso
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Combining mutation and recombination statistics to infer clonal families in antibody repertoires

    Natanael Spisak, Gabriel Athènes ... Aleksandra M Walczak
    HILARy is a new algorithm for grouping B-cell receptor sequences into distinct lineages, a crucial task to analyze immune response and memory through repertoire sequencing.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Local volume concentration, packing domains, and scaling properties of chromatin

    Marcelo A Carignano, Martin Kroeger ... Igal Szleifer
    The Self Returning Excluded Volume model is the first heuristic, stochastic chromatin model that reproduce single cell and ensemble based experiments bridging nucleosome and chromosome scales.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The exchange dynamics of biomolecular condensates

    Yaojun Zhang, Andrew GT Pyo ... Ned S Wingreen
    Exchange of components between biomolecular condensates and the surrounding dilute phase can be limited by dense-phase mixing, dilute-phase influx, or by the slow incorporation of molecules through the condensate interface.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Deep learning for rapid analysis of cell divisions in vivo during epithelial morphogenesis and repair

    Jake Turley, Isaac V Chenchiah ... Helen Weavers
    Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence tools can be developed to accurately identify cell divisions during development and wound repair of epithelial tissue.

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  1. Felix Campelo
    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
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    Ecole Normale Superieure, France
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