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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    An Hfq-dependent post-transcriptional mechanism fine tunes RecB expression in Escherichia coli

    Irina Kalita, Ira Alexandra Iosub ... Meriem El Karoui
    Single-molecule mRNA and protein quantification, combined with stochastic modelling, uncover a post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism that controls the expression of the extremely low-abundance DNA double-strand break repair enzyme RecBCD.
    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Colony demographics shape nest construction in Camponotus fellah ants

    Harikrishnan Rajendran, Roi Weinberger ... Ofer Feinerman
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Atypical collective oscillatory activity in cardiac tissue uncovered by optogenetics

    Alexander S Teplenin, Nina N Kudryashova ... Tim De Coster
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Optimal information gain at the onset of habituation to repeated stimuli

    Giorgio Nicoletti, Matteo Bruzzone ... Daniel Maria Busiello
    The onset of habituation phenomena enables accurate processing of external stimuli when biological systems adapt their parameters to balance dissipation and the information between input and response.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Balancing reaction-diffusion network for cell polarization pattern with stability and asymmetry

    Yixuan Chen, Guoye Guan ... Chao Tang
    Reaction-diffusion network modeling unveils general design principles that both stabilize cell polarization patterns and enable tunable interface localization, reconciling extensive experimental observations and deepening the understanding of asymmetric cell division.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Cellular coordination underpins rapid reversals in gliding filamentous cyanobacteria and its loss results in plectonemes

    Jerko Rosko, Rebecca N Poon ... Orkun S Soyer
    Gliding multicellular cyanobacteria results from cellular coordination, the loss of which results in the collapse of orderly back-and-forth movement of filaments and in filament buckling.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Quantifying Intracellular Mechanosensitive Response upon Spatially Defined Mechano-Chemical Triggering

    Elaheh Zare-Eelanjegh, Renard TM Lewis ... Tomaso Zambelli
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Q-learning with temporal memory to navigate turbulence

    Marco Rando, Martin James ... Agnese Seminara
    Animals may learn to locate preys effectively by memorizing short excerpts of their scent trace, which duration is dictated by the sparse nature of turbulent odor plumes.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Convergent Cellular Adaptation to Freeze-Thaw Stress via a Quiescence-like State in Yeast

    Charuhansini Tvishamayi, Farhan Ali ... Shashi Thutupalli
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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Physical constraints and biological regulations underlie universal osmoresponses

    Yiyang Ye, Qirun Wang, Jie Lin
    Theoretical modeling uncovers an unusual acceleration in microbial growth following osmotic shock, driven by the coordinated regulation of osmolyte production and cell-wall synthesis.