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A catalytic growth model in a shared enzyme pool explains robust centrosome size equality and size scaling, offering a unifying model for centrosome maturation dynamics across diverse organisms.

A computational systems biology approach identifies a gene network module associated with single-cell mechanical phenotype changes across diverse mouse and human systems, with implications for on-demand engineering of cell stiffness.

Phase diagrams for 140 variants of prion-like low-complexity domains are computed to establish scaling laws that quantify the impact of amino acid mutations on the thermodynamic stability of condensates.

Single-molecule tracking at scale, analyzing millions of cells and thousands of compounds per day, demonstrates that measuring protein motion provides mechanistic insights relevant to drug discovery.

The composition of nodes that effectively transmit sinusoidal waves in a model network resembling C. elegans' electrical synapses network changes according to the waves' wavenumber.