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Dandelion seeds respond to wet weather by closing their plumes, which reduces dispersal when wind conditions are poor.

An epithelium modelled as an active, nematic surface can display flattening, budding, and tubulation morphogenetic events, which are observed during development in biological organisms.

The combination of theoretical modeling and quantitative live imaging revealed that the repressor proteins work cooperatively or anti-cooperatively depending on enhancer architecture.

The nearly universal nature of scaled cell shape variability in an epithelial monolayer is unavoidable, irrespective of health or disease, as it comes from a mathematical property.

Different fixation protocols can both enhance and diminish the appearance of liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) droplets presenting a caveat in using fixed-cell imaging to diagnose LLPS.

Networked cardiac control, revealed through analysis of extended baseline-state multi-channel recordings, differentiates heart failure and normal regimes highlighting the promise of peripheral neurally based clinical interventions.

Computer simulations considering actions of the intranuclear enzyme, Topoisomerase-II, in a mechanistic scheme elucidated a capability of enzymes to contribute to controlling chromatin spatial organizations and discovered new characteristic features in eu- and heterochromatin organization caused by the enzymatic activity.

Diffusion of differently sized proteins in bacterial cytoplasm is nearly Brownian and consistent with the Stokes-Einstein relation, once protein shape and cell geometry are taken into account, and effects of various perturbation can be described as changes in cytoplasmic viscosity.

The dandelion diaspore changes its shape depending on the moisture levels in the air, and this morphing enhances the dispersal potential of the seeds regardless of the weather conditions.

For severe COVID-19 patients' red blood cells, healthy donor plasma reduces pathological red blood cell shape alterations and improves microcapillary flow in vitro through an interaction between red blood cells and plasma.