Physics of Living Systems

Physics of Living Systems

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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    A scale-invariant log-normal droplet size distribution below the critical concentration for protein phase separation

    Tommaso Amico, Samuel Toluwanimi Dada ... Amos Maritan
    The scaling invariance of the droplet size distribution as a universal aspect of protein phase separation is reported, providing a quantitative approach to determinate the critical concentration for this process.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Reversing protonation of weakly basic drugs greatly enhances intracellular diffusion and decreases lysosomal sequestration

    Debabrata Dey, Shir Marciano ... Gideon Schreiber
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Ecology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Colony demographics shape nest construction in ants

    Harikrishnan Rajendran, Roi Weinberger ... Ofer Feinerman
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Inferring the time-varying coupling of dynamical systems with temporal convolutional autoencoders

    Josuan Calderon, Gordon J Berman
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Intraspecific predator interference promotes biodiversity in ecosystems

    Ju Kang, Shijie Zhang ... Xin Wang
    Intraspecific predator interference enables a wide range of consumer species to coexist with a limited variety of resources, explaining the paradox of the plankton and species diversity patterns across ecosystems.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Detection of changes in membrane potential by magnetic resonance imaging

    Kyeongseon Min, Sungkwon Chung ... Jang-Yeon Park
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Information gain at the onset of habituation to repeated stimuli

    Giorgio Nicoletti, Matteo Bruzzone ... Daniel Maria Busiello
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Emergence of planar cell polarity from the interplay of local interactions and global gradients

    Divyoj Singh, Sriram Ramaswamy ... Mohd Suhail Rizvi
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    HIV integrase compacts viral DNA into biphasic condensates

    Pauline J Kolbeck, Marjolein de Jager ... Willem Vanderlinden
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Light-driven synchronization of optogenetic clocks

    Maria Cristina Cannarsa, Filippo Liguori ... Roberto Di Leonardo
    Introducing the optorepressilator, a synthetic genetic oscillator that can be synchronized, entrained, and detuned by green light to precisely control periodic gene expression in single cells or entire bacterial populations.
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Highlights

    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Flagella: A new kind of beat

    Kirsty Y Wan
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Cancer: Cells under pressure

    Dhiraj Indana, Ovijit Chaudhuri
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Modelling biomolecular condensates

    Furqan Dar, Rohit Pappu

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    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
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