Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Vein fate determined by flow-based but time-delayed integration of network architecture

   Sophie Marbach, Noah Ziethen ... Karen Alim

   Relative hydraulic resistance, shear rate, and pressure in a vascular network integrate the network's architecture via fluid flow, and determine vein dynamics, with a time delay, in the prototypical organism Physarum polycephalum.
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Vasculature: Exploring the dynamics of vascular adaptation

   Thomas S Shimizu, E Toby Kiers, Howard A Stone

   A combination of in toto imaging and theory suggests a new mechanism for the remodeling of veins in vascular networks.
3. 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.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Substrate evaporation drives collective construction in termites

   G. Facchini, A. Rathery ... A. Perna
5. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Substrate stiffness impacts early biofilm formation by modulating Pseudomonas aeruginosa twitching motility

   Sofia Gomez, Lionel Bureau ... Sigolene Lecuyer
6. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Generating active T1 transitions through mechanochemical feedback

   Rastko Sknepnek, Ilyas Djafer-Cherif ... Silke Henkes

   Directed mechanical stresses can trigger active T1 events that lead to tissue elongation perpendicular to the main direction of tissue stress.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Defining basic rules for hardening influenza A virus liquid condensates

   Temitope Akhigbe Etibor, Silvia Vale-Costa ... Maria-João Amorim

   Thermodynamic, kinetic, and dynamic analyses as well as solubility proteome profiling reveal that influenza A virus liquid inclusions may be selectively hardened with promising antiviral activity.
8. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Physical basis of the cell size scaling laws

   Romain Rollin, Jean-François Joanny, Pierre Sens
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Viral Condensates: Making it hard to replicate

   Billy Wai-Lung Ng, Stephan Scheeff, Josefina Xeque Amada

   Understanding how to harden liquid condensates produced by influenza A virus could accelerate the development of novel antiviral drugs.
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems

    Dynamics of immune memory and learning in bacterial communities

    Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, Sidhartha Goyal

    Bacterial CRISPR immunity tracks phage mutations, creating immune diversity in bacterial populations that parallels phage genetic diversity and patterns of phage evolution that are determined by the type and degree of immune cross-reactivity in the CRISPR system.