Physics of Living Systems

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1. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   The ability to sense the environment is heterogeneously distributed in cell populations

   Andrew Goetz, Hoda Akl, Purushottam Dixit
2. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Diameter Dependence of Transport through Nuclear Pore Complex Mimics Studied Using Optical Nanopores

   Nils Klughammer, Anders Barth ... Cees Dekker
3. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   How microscopic epistasis and clonal interference shape the fitness trajectory in a spin glass model of microbial long-term evolution

   Nicholas M. Boffi, Yipei Guo ... Ariel Amir
4. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Physical basis of the cell size scaling laws

   Romain Rollin, Jean-François Joanny, Pierre Sens

   A theoretical model explains how protein density and nuclear to cell volume ratio are maintained during cell growth, discusses conditions under which this breaks down, and highlights the importance of metabolites, mainly amino acids such as glutamate, in this homeostasis.
5. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Cell Size: Putting scaling laws on a physical foundation

   Yiyang Ye, Jie Lin

   As a cell changes size during the cell cycle, why does its density remain constant?
6. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Energetics of the Microsporidian Polar Tube Invasion Machinery

   Ray Chang, Ari Davydov ... Manu Prakash
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Substrate stiffness impacts early biofilm formation by modulating Pseudomonas aeruginosa twitching motility

   Sofia Gomez, Lionel Bureau ... Sigolene Lecuyer

   The spatial organization of pathogenic bacteria into microcolonies can be shaped by the stiffness of the substrate that they colonize, via modifications of the bacterial motility.
8. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Vein fate determined by flow-based but time-delayed integration of network architecture

   Sophie Marbach, Noah Ziethen ... Karen Alim

   Relative hydraulic resistance, shear rate, and pressure in a vascular network integrate the network's architecture via fluid flow, and determine vein dynamics, with a time delay, in the prototypical organism Physarum polycephalum.
9. 1. Physics of Living Systems

   Vasculature: Exploring the dynamics of vascular adaptation

   Thomas S Shimizu, E Toby Kiers, Howard A Stone

   A combination of in toto imaging and theory suggests a new mechanism for the remodeling of veins in vascular networks.
10. 1. Medicine
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Comparable in vivo joint kinematics between self-reported stable and unstable knees after TKA can be explained by muscular adaptation strategies: A retrospective observational study

    Longfeng Rao, Nils Horn ... Pascal Schütz

    Muscle synergies are able to identify muscular adaptation that results from feelings of joint instability, whereas tibiofemoral kinematics are sensitive for detecting acute instability events during functional activities.