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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Sub-surface deformation of individual fingerprint ridges during tactile interactions

    Giulia Corniani, Zing S Lee ... Hannes P Saal
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Migrating mesoderm cells self-organize into a dynamic meshwork structure during chick gastrulation

    Yukiko Nakaya, Mitsusuke Tarama ... Tatsuo Shibata
    A novel form of collective mesenchymal cell migration is identified during chick gastrulation, where a dynamic 3D meshwork supported by N-cadherin-mediated adhesion coordinates movement and enhances directional migration in the unconfined space between ectoderm and endoderm.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Non-equilibrium strategies enabling ligand specificity by signaling receptors

    Andrew Goetz, Jeremy Barrios ... Purushottam D Dixit
    Non-equilibrium thermodynamics allows signaling networks to signal downstream of certain ligands but avoid signaling from others.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Toward stable replication of genomic information in pools of RNA molecules

    Ludwig Burger, Ulrich Gerland
    Theoretical and computational analyses reveal environmental, compositional, kinetic, and thermodynamic constraints on a scenario where sequence information collectively stored in pools of RNA molecules is replicated via non-enzymatic RNA ligation.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    A stretching mechanism evokes mechano-electrical transduction in auditory chordotonal neurons

    Atitheb Chaiyasitdhi, Manuela Nowotny ... Benjamin Warren
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The evolution of interdisciplinarity and internationalization in scientific journals

    Huaxia Zhou, Luís A Nunes Amaral
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Postural adaptations may contribute to the unique locomotor energetics seen in hopping kangaroos

    Lauren H Thornton, Taylor JM Dick ... Christofer J Clemente
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Microbiomes Through the Looking Glass: Linking Species Interactions to Dysbiosis through a Disordered Lotka-Volterra Framework

    Jacopo Pasqualini, Amos Maritan ... Samir Suweis
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    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    The dominant–egalitarian transition in species-rich communities

    David A Kessler, Nadav M Shnerb
    A model of a species-rich neutral ecosystem, perturbed by environmental noise impacting each species differently, predicts that for large noise the community is dominated by a few species, while for weaker noise it is more egalitarian, with many significant species.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    The Matthew effect and early-career setbacks in research funding—a replication study

    Vincent Traag, Emer Brady ... Carter Bloch
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