Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Ecology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons

   Shoubhik Chandan Banerjee, Fritz A Francisco, Albert B Kao
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Controlling the synchronization and symmetry breaking of coupled bacterial pili on active biofilm carpets

   Baha Altın, Enes Talha Günay ... Aşkın Kocabaş
3. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Colony demographics shape nest construction in Camponotus fellah ants

   Harikrishnan Rajendran, Roi Weinberger ... Ofer Feinerman

   The architecture of an ant nest serves as a fossilized record of the colony's demographic history, with distinct growth patterns and catastrophic events through age-specific digging behaviors.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Fragmentation and aggregation of cyanobacterial colonies

   Yuri Z Sinzato, Robert Uittenbogaard ... Maziyar Jalaal

   Flow experiments show how the formation of cyanobacterial colonies is driven by cell division, aggregation, and fragmentation under different hydrodynamic conditions.
5. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Enhanced bacterial chemotaxis in confined microchannels occurs at lane widths matching circular swimming radius

   Caijuan Yue, Chi Zhang ... Junhua Yuan

   Geometric confinement paradoxically enhances bacterial chemotaxis through chiral surface swimming and sidewall alignment, with optimal performance when lane width matches the circular swimming radius.
6. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Revealing global stoichiometry conservation architecture in cells from Raman spectral patterns

   Ken-ichiro F Kamei, Koseki J Kobayashi-Kirschvink ... Yuichi Wakamoto

   Conservation levels of gene expression abundance ratios are globally coordinated in cells, and cellular state changes under such biologically relevant stoichiometric constraints are readable as low-dimensional changes in Raman spectra.
7. 1. Physics of Living Systems
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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

   François Simon, Guillaume Ramadier ... Lucien E Weiss

   Exatrack is a framework for analyzing Brownian, directed, and confined motion using a hidden-variable probabilistic model to extract physical insight into particle diffusion.
8. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Out-of-balance Growth Enables Cost-free Synthesis of the Flagellum and Other Proteins in a Single Bacterium

   Mayra Garcia-Alcala, Josiah C Kratz, Philippe Cluzel
9. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A deep learning pipeline for mapping in situ network-level neurovascular coupling in multi-photon fluorescence microscopy

   Matthew W Rozak, James R Mester ... Bojana Stefanovic

   A novel pipeline for analyzing longitudinal two-photon microscopy data of cerebrovasculature in mice interrogates the vasculature network before and after optogenetic stimulation, revealing new insights into their coordination.
10. 1. Physics of Living Systems

    The cytoplasm of living cells can sustain transient and steady intracellular pressure gradients

    Majid Malboubi, Mohammad Hadi Esteki ... Guillaume Charras

    Stable pressure gradients can arise in cells from the combination of actomyosin-generated cortical tension, cytoplasmic poroelasticity, and water flows across the membrane.