Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Toward Stable Replication of Genomic Information in Pools of RNA Molecules

   Ludwig Burger, Ulrich Gerland
2. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Responses to membrane potential-modulating ionic solutions measured by magnetic resonance imaging of cultured cells and in vivo rat cortex

   Kyeongseon Min, Sungkwon Chung ... Jang-Yeon Park

   Magnetic resonance imaging, through its sensitivity to ionic environments that modulate membrane potential, enables noninvasive assessment of biological systems.
3. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Heterogeneous efflux pump expression underpins phenotypic resistance to antimicrobial peptides

   Ka Kiu Lee, Urszula Łapińska ... Stefano Pagliara

   Sub-populations of non growing bacteria survive treatment with antimicrobial peptides by mounting an efflux response.
4. 1. Physics of Living Systems
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Adaptations in wing morphology rather than wingbeat kinematics enable flight in small hoverfly species

   Camille Le Roy, Nina Tervelde ... Florian T Muijres
5. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   The cytoplasm of living cells can sustain transient and steady intracellular pressure gradients

   Majid Malboubi, Mohammad Hadi Esteki ... Guillaume Charras
6. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Role of intercellular adhesion in modulating tissue fluidity

   Soumyadipta Ray, Santidan Biswas, Dipjyoti Das
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Designing biochemical circuits with tree search

   Pranav S Bhamidipati, Matthew Thomson
8. 1. Neuroscience
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   The geometry and dimensionality of brain-wide activity

   Zezhen Wang, Weihao Mai ... Quan Wen

   Neural activity patterns in randomly sampled neuron groups statistically match whole-brain dynamics, revealing a scale-invariant organizational principle that enables robust and efficient computation across brain regions and species.
9. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   A mathematical model for ketosis-prone diabetes suggests the existence of multiple pancreatic β-cell inactivation mechanisms

   Sean A Ridout, Priyathama Vellanki, Ilya Nemenman
10. 1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Spectral decomposition unlocks ascidian morphogenesis

    Joel Dokmegang, Emmanuel Faure ... Madhav Mani

    The blueprint and narrative of shape formation during early development can be objectively observed by quantifying and analyzing whole-embryo dynamics.