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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).
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F. L. Lampart, et al., Morphometry and mechanical instability at the onset of epithelial bladder cancer. Nat. Phys. 1–10 (2025).
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Nature Physics - Carcinoma subtypes are normally linked to specific genetic alterations, but tissue mechanical changes also play a role. Now, aberrant morphologies resembling bladder carcinoma are...
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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).
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T. Tlusty, A. Libchaber, Life sets off a cascade of machines. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2418000122 (2025).
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Life is invasive, occupying all physically accessible scales, stretching between almost nothing (protons, electrons, and photons) and almost everyt...
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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).
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Photosynthetic microbes have evolved and successfully adapted to the ever-changing environmental conditions in complex microhabitats throughout alm...
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J. Wang, J. E. Butler, A. J. C. Ladd, Microfluidic purification of genomic DNA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 122, e2417757122 (2025).
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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).
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The crowded bacterial cytoplasm is composed of biomolecules that span several orders of magnitude in size and electrical charge. This complexity ha...
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H. J. Oh, et al., Size-controlled assembly of phase separated protein condensates with interfacial protein cages. Nat. Commun. 16, 1–14 (2025).
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Nature Communications - This study introduces a one-pot method to create and control protein condensates using surface-stabilizing protein cages, allowing size tuning from the micro- to nanoscale...
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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).
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E. Han, et al., Local polar order controls mechanical stress and triggers layer formation in Myxococcus xanthus colonies. Nat. Commun. 16, 952 (2025).
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Nature Communications - The decision to form a fruiting body have been studied extensively, however, the mechanical events that trigger the creation of multiple cell layers is poorly understood....
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M. Burman, A. Noy, Atomic description of the reciprocal action between supercoils and melting bubbles on linear DNA. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025).
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Although the mechanical response of DNA to physiological torsion and tension is well characterized, the detailed structures are not yet known. By using molecular dynamics simulations on linear DNA...
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J. Liang, et al., Glass transition in monolayers of rough colloidal ellipsoids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025).
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Roughing up the surfaces of particles in a colloidal system can smooth its transition into a glassy state.
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W. D. Piñeros, É. Fodor, Biased ensembles of pulsating active matter. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025).
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Ensembles of particles that actively pulsate in size which are also biased to select certain rare configurations can exhibit complex emergent behaviors that depend on system geometry.
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L. A. Hoffmann, L. Giomi, Homochirality in the Vicsek model: Fluctuations and potential implications for cellular flocks. Phys. Rev. E. 111 (2025).
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Chirality is a feature of many biological systems, and much research has been focused on understanding the origin and implications of this property. Famously, sugars and amino acids found in nature...
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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).
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This work analyzes the mechanical dynamics driving inversion of the $V\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}o\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}l\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}v\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}o\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}x$ embryo,...
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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).
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Adhesion between cells plays an important role in many biological processes such as tissue morphogenesis and homeostasis, wound healing, and cancer cell metastasis. From a mathematical perspective,...
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A. Despons, Nonequilibrium properties of autocatalytic networks. Phys. Rev. E. 111 (2025).
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Autocatalytic networks regulate the capability of a chemical system to produce copies of itself and are key for the metabolism of living systems. In this study, the author explores the relationship...
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H. Noguchi, Spatiotemporal pattern formation of membranes induced by surface molecular binding/unbinding. Soft Matter (2025).
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Nonequilibrium membrane pattern formation is studied using meshless membrane simulation. We consider that molecules bind to either surface of a bilayer membrane and move to the opposite leaflet by...
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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).
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C. Hanauer, et al., A model for self-organized growth, branching, and allometric scaling of the planarian gut. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2025).
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The growth and scaling of organs is a fundamental aspect of animal development. However, how organs grow to the right size and shape required by physiological demands, remains largely unknown....
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