Physics of Living Systems

Physics of Living Systems

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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Annihilation of action potentials induces electrical coupling between neurons

    Moritz Schlötter, Georg Maret, Christoph J Kleineidam
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Probing the force-from-lipid mechanism with synthetic polymers

    Miranda L Jacobs, Jan Steinkühler ... Neha P Kamat
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Effects of growth feedback on adaptive gene circuits: A dynamical understanding

    Ling-Wei Kong, Wenjia Shi ... Ying-Cheng Lai
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    How cancer-associated fibroblasts promote T-cell exclusion in human lung tumors: a physical perspective

    Joseph Ackermann, Chiara Bernard ... Martine Ben Amar
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Fragmentation and aggregation of cyanobacterial colonies

    Yuri Z Sinzato, Robert Uittenbogaard ... Maziyar Jalaal
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Solid
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Catalytic growth in a shared enzyme pool ensures robust control of centrosome size

    Deb Sankar Banerjee, Shiladitya Banerjee
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    A high-throughput platform for single-molecule tracking identifies drug interaction and cellular mechanisms

    David Trombley McSwiggen, Helen Liu ... Hilary P Beck
    Single-molecule tracking at scale, analyzing millions of cells and thousands of compounds per day, demonstrates that measuring protein motion provides mechanistic insights relevant to drug discovery.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    The Geometry and Dimensionality of Brain-wide Activity

    Zezhen Wang, Weihao Mai ... Quan Wen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Wavenumber-dependent transmission of subthreshold waves on electrical synapses network model of Caenorhabditis elegans

    Iksoo Chang, Taegon Chung, Sangyeol Kim
    The composition of nodes that effectively transmit sinusoidal waves in a model network resembling C. elegans' electrical synapses network changes according to the waves' wavenumber.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Toward Stable Replication of Genomic Information in Pools of RNA Molecules

    Ludwig Burger, Ulrich Gerland
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
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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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