soft/living matter fanclub
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soft/living matter fanclub
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we highlight the latest articles that bring together physics and biology.

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L. Balasubramaniam, et al., Dynamic forces shape the survival fate of eliminated cells. Nat. Phys. 1–10 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02716-5
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
F. L. Lampart, et al., Morphometry and mechanical instability at the onset of epithelial bladder cancer. Nat. Phys. 1–10 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02735-2
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
G. Šneiderienė, et al., Lipid-induced condensate formation from the Alzheimer’s Aβ peptide triggers amyloid aggregation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2401307122 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401307122
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
T. Tlusty, A. Libchaber, Life sets off a cascade of machines. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2418000122 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418000122
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A. A. Fragkopoulos, F. Böhme, N. Drewes, O. Bäumchen, Metabolic activity controls the emergence of coherent flows in microbial suspensions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2413340122 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413340122
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
J. Wang, J. E. Butler, A. J. C. Ladd, Microfluidic purification of genomic DNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2417757122 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417757122
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
D. Valverde-Mendez, et al., Macromolecular interactions and geometrical confinement determine the 3D diffusion of ribosome-sized particles in live Escherichia coli cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2406340121 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2406340121
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
H. J. Oh, et al., Size-controlled assembly of phase separated protein condensates with interfacial protein cages. Nat. Commun. 16, 1–14 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56391-y
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
K. Tomohara, Y. Minagawa, H. Noji, Artificial cells with all-aqueous droplet-in-droplet structures for spatially separated transcription and translation. Nat. Commun. 16, 1–11 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55366-9
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
E. Han, et al., Local polar order controls mechanical stress and triggers layer formation in Myxococcus xanthus colonies. Nat. Commun. 16, 952 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55806-6
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
M. Burman, A. Noy, Atomic description of the reciprocal action between supercoils and melting bubbles on linear DNA. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.038403
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
J. Liang, et al., Glass transition in monolayers of rough colloidal ellipsoids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.038202
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
W. D. Piñeros, É. Fodor, Biased ensembles of pulsating active matter. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.038301
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
L. A. Hoffmann, L. Giomi, Homochirality in the Vicsek model: Fluctuations and potential implications for cellular flocks. Phys. Rev. E. 111 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.015427
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
P. A. Haas, S. S. M. H. Höhn, Cut it out: Out-of-plane stresses in cell sheet folding of Volvox embryos. Phys. Rev. E. 111 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.014420
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
S. R. Noureen, R. L. Mort, C. A. Yates, Modeling adhesion in stochastic and mean-field models of cell migration. Phys. Rev. E. 111 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.014419
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A. Despons, Nonequilibrium properties of autocatalytic networks. Phys. Rev. E. 111 (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.014414
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
H. Noguchi, Spatiotemporal pattern formation of membranes induced by surface molecular binding/unbinding. Soft Matter (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D4SM01277A
February 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
M. Safdari, S. Li, S. Panahandeh, P. van der Schoot, R. Zandi, Impact of the RNA binding domain localization of the protein shell on virus particle stability. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13891
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
C. Hanauer, et al., A model for self-organized growth, branching, and allometric scaling of the planarian gut. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11182
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
B. D. Shrestha, et al., Confinement-induced proliferation of vortices around marine invertebrate larvae. arXiv [physics.flu-dyn] (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11744
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
S. Kapadia, A. Kudrolli, Boundary curvature-dependent dynamical trapping of undulating worms. arXiv [cond-mat.soft] (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10783
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
G. Shi, S. Shin, D. Thirumalai, Static three-dimensional structures determine fast dynamics between distal loci pairs in interphase chromosomes. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10004
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Z. Cao, C. Du, Z. Hou, P. G. Wolynes, Motorized chromosome models of mitosis. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09873
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
M. Álvarez-Alegría, P. Moreno-Spiegelberg, M. A. Matías, D. Gomila, Excitable dynamics and coral reef formation: A simple model of macro-scale structure development. arXiv [q-bio.PE] (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10231
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM