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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Potassium-mediated bacterial chemotactic response

    Chi Zhang, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan
    Escherichia coli exhibits sensitive chemotaxis to potassium, mediated by differential responses of Tar and Tsr chemoreceptors to intracellular pH changes induced by potassium concentration gradients.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Intracellular mechanical fingerprint reveals cell type specific mechanical tuning

    Till M. Muenker, Bart E. Vos, Timo Betz
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    The younger flagellum sets the beat for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Da Wei, Greta Quaranta ... Daniel SW Tam
    External hydrodynamic forcing on each flagellum of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reveals a leader-follower relation between the two flagella in the synchronous beating.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Morphogenesis: The enigma of cell intercalation

    Raphaël Clément
    Geometric criteria can be used to assess whether cell intercalation is active or passive during the convergent extension of tissue.
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Development of equation of motion deciphering locomotion including omega turns of Caenorhabditis elegans

    Taegon Chung, Iksoo Chang, Sangyeol Kim
    ElegansBot, a two-dimensional rigid body chain model, simulates various locomotion of C. elegans, including omega and delta turns, using Newtonian equations of motion.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    The French flag problem revisited: Creating robust and tunable axial patterns without global signaling

    Stephan Kremser, Gabriel Vercelli, Ulrich Gerland
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    Substrate evaporation drives collective construction in termites

    Giulio Facchini, Alann Rathery ... Andrea Perna
    Evidence of a relationship between substrate curvature, water evaporation and the building behavior of termites capable of mediating collective nest-building with no need for a building pheromone.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Yeast cell responses and survival during periodic osmotic stress are controlled by glucose availability

    Fabien Duveau, Céline Cordier ... Pascal Hersen
    Microfluidic methods are used to quantitatively probe single yeast cells' response to either simultaneous or sequential stresses, revealing the dynamic interplay between two antagonistic inputs, osmotic stress and glucose starvation.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Mitosis sets nuclear homeostasis of cancer cells under confinement

    Malèke Mouelhi, Alexis Saffon ... Charlotte Rivière
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    Hydrodynamics and multiscale order in confluent epithelia

    Josep-Maria Armengol-Collado, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi
    Confluent cellular layers display the remarkable ability of supportingmultiscale orientational order, that is the existence of different typeof liquid crystal order at different length scales.