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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Hypersensitivity of the vimentin cytoskeleton to net-charge states and Coulomb repulsion

    Bret A Unger, Chun Ying Wu ... Ke Xu
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    Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

    Alex James, Franca Buelow ... Ann Brower
    There is a systemic bias in research evaluation, i.e., disciplines with a higher proportion of women have lower evaluations and funding success for all researchers, regardless of gender.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Long-distance electron transport in multicellular freshwater cable bacteria

    Tingting Yang, Marko S Chavez ... Mohamed Y El-Naggar
    A biophysical approach sheds light on the electron transport physics and electric metabolism of centimeter-long filamentous freshwater cable bacteria.
    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
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    Growth consequences of the inhomogeneous organization of the bacterial cytoplasm

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

    Optical mapping of ground reaction force dynamics in freely behaving Drosophila melanogaster larvae

    Jonathan H Booth, Andrew T Meek ... Malte C Gather
    A new optical approach reveals dynamics of ground reaction forces in Drosophila larvae and opens new avenues for studying the biomechanics of movement in small animals.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty

    Nicholas LaBerge, Kenneth Hunter Wapman ... Daniel B Larremore
    Achieving gender parity among U.S. tenured and tenure-track faculty will require changes to hiring, which has substantially greater impacts on faculty gender representation than gendered differences in attrition rates.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Neutrophils actively swell to potentiate rapid migration

    Tamas L Nagy, Evelyn Strickland, Orion D Weiner
    Actin-independent water influx complements actin-driven cytoskeletal forces to potentiate chemoattractant-induced migration in primary human neutrophils.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Cell Migration: Pump up the volume

    Qin Ni, Sean X Sun
    An influx of water molecules can help immune cells called neutrophils to move to where they are needed in the body.
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    Cyclic muscle contractions reinforce the actomyosin motors and mediate the full elongation of C. elegans embryo

    Anna Dai, Martine Ben Amar
    Computational and theoretical biomechanical analysis reveals how actomyosin filaments and axial muscles conjugate their activity to realize a fourfold elongation during C. elegans embryogenesis, 4 hr just before hatching.