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An information theoretic and systems biology approach shows that cellular compartmentalisation and receptor promiscuity can facilitate the accurate and robust inference of position from noisy morphogen profiles, verified by experiments in Drosophila wing imaginal disc.

Extremely significant interactions between α3-β7 and β12-α5 loops in the tetrameric L1 metallo-β-lactamase play an important role in the structural remodeling of the active site and offer insights into the potential for novel drug development by exploiting these interactions.

Nuclear export inhibition reveals concurrent epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes that cause mechanosensitive disorder in collectively migrating epithelia.

During Drosophila axis elongation, the orientational pattern of the cytoskeleton is in good approximation stationary, while the genes thought to instruct these patterns are transported with the tissue flow.

Novel frequency-based analysis and computation modeling of cilia carpets reveals that tissue-scale metachronal coordination of cilia can arise even in the absence of global synchronization.

Sequence signatures can be used to discriminate between selected and non-selected immune repertoires at different stages only at the collective population level but not at the level of single cells.

A chemical regularly used to image cells can dramatically alter the way cellular compartments called condensates look under the microscope.

Complex, multi-scale natural behaviors may arise from subpopulations of neurons in cerebral cortex operating near the tipping point of a phase transition, that is, near criticality.

A new multi camera imaging platform simultaneously captures large-area, high-resolution video of unconstrained small model organisms and provides behavioral measurements that span multiple spatial scales.

Observations of ant excavation from a confining corral, along with theoretical models and synthetic robot experiments show the emergence of cooperation induced by pheromones in a malleable environment that is moulded by and moulds collective behavior.