Physics of Living Systems

Physics of Living Systems

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Latest articles

    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The exchange dynamics of biomolecular condensates

    Yaojun Zhang, Andrew GT Pyo ... Ned S Wingreen
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Stochastic tug-of-war among sarcomeres mediates cardiomyocyte response to environmental stiffness

    Daniel Haertter, Lara Hauke ... Christoph F Schmidt
    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
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Growth consequences of the inhomogeneous organization of the bacterial cytoplasm

    Johan H van Heerden, Alicia Berkvens ... Frank J Bruggeman
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Emergence of ion-channel mediated electrical oscillations in Escherichia coli biofilms

    Emmanuel U Akabuogu, Victor Martorelli ... Thomas A Waigh
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    A scale-invariant log-normal droplet size distribution below the critical concentration for protein phase separation

    Tommaso Amico, Samuel Dada ... Amos Maritan
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Intraspecific predator interference promotes biodiversity in ecosystems

    Ju Kang, Shijie Zhang ... Xin Wang
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Mapping Spatial Patterns to Energetic Benefits in Groups of Flow-coupled Swimmers

    Sina Heydari, Haotian Hang, Eva Kanso
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Detecting directed motion and confinement in single-particle trajectories using hidden variables

    François Simon, Guillaume Ramadier ... Lucien E Weiss
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    The Geometric Basis of Epithelial Convergent Extension

    Fridtjof Brauns, Nikolas H Claussen ... Boris I Shraiman
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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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  1. Felix Campelo
    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
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    Ecole Normale Superieure, France
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