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Scaling behaviour and control of nuclear wrinkling
The cell nucleus is enveloped by a complex membrane, whose wrinkling has been implicated in disease and cellular aging. The biophysical dynamics and spectral evolution of nuclear wrinkling during multicellular...
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Open AccessSimultaneous spatiotemporal transcriptomics and microscopy of Bacillus subtilis swarm development reveal cooperation across generations
Development of microbial communities is a complex multiscale phenomenon with wide-ranging biomedical and ecological implications. How biological and physical processes determine emergent spatial structures in ...
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Proliferating active matter
The fascinating patterns of collective motion created by autonomously driven particles have fuelled active-matter research for over two decades. So far, theoretical active-matter research has often focused on ...
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Open Access4-bit adhesion logic enables universal multicellular interface patterning
Multicellular systems, from bacterial biofilms to human organs, form interfaces (or boundaries) between different cell collectives to spatially organize versatile functions1,2. The evolution of sufficiently descr...
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Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals
Active crystals are highly ordered structures that emerge from the self-organization of motile objects, and have been widely studied in synthetic1,2 and bacterial3,4 active matter. Whether persistent crystalline...
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Open AccessEmergence and melting of active vortex crystals
Melting of two-dimensional (2D) equilibrium crystals is a complex phenomenon characterized by the sequential loss of positional and orientational order. In contrast to passive systems, active crystals can self...
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Emergent order in hydrodynamic spin lattices
Macroscale analogues1–3 of microscopic spin systems offer direct insights into fundamental physical principles, thereby advancing our understanding of synchronization phenomena4 and informing the design of novel ...
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Topological turbulence in the membrane of a living cell
Topological defects determine the structure and function of physical and biological matter over a wide range of scales, from the turbulent vortices in planetary atmospheres, oceans or quantum fluids to bioelec...
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Breakdown of Vibrio cholerae biofilm architecture induced by antibiotics disrupts community barrier function
Bacterial cells in nature are frequently exposed to changes in their chemical environment1,2. The response mechanisms of isolated cells to such stimuli have been investigated in great detail. By contrast, little ...
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Open AccessLearning dynamical information from static protein and sequencing data
Many complex processes, from protein folding to neuronal network dynamics, can be described as stochastic exploration of a high-dimensional energy landscape. Although efficient algorithms for cluster detection...
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Emergence of three-dimensional order and structure in growing biofilms
Surface-attached bacterial biofilms are self-replicating active liquid crystals and the dominant form of bacterial life on Earth1–4. In conventional liquid crystals and solid-state materials, the interaction pote...
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Entropic effects in cell lineage tree packings
Optimal packings1,2 of unconnected objects have been studied for centuries3–6, but the packing principles of linked objects, such as topologically complex polymers7,8 or cell lineages9,10, are yet to be fully exp...
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Publisher Correction: Entropic effects in cell lineage tree packings
In the version of this Letter originally published, the citations to equation (1) in Fig. 3 caption and the main text were incorrect; they should have been to equation (2). This has now been corrected.
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Rolling sound waves
A quantitative description of sound wave propagation in suspensions of self-propelled colloidal particles is achieved by combining microfluidics, video microscopy and theory.
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Open AccessActive matter logic for autonomous microfluidics
Chemically or optically powered active matter plays an increasingly important role in materials design, but its computational potential has yet to be explored systematically. The competition between energy con...
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Generalized Swift-Hohenberg models for dense active suspensions
In describing the physics of living organisms, a mathematical theory that captures the generic ordering principles of intracellular and multicellular dynamics is essential for distinguishing between universal ...
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Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order in bacterial vortex lattices
Hydrodynamic coupling induces a vortex state in bacterial populations. Microfluidic experiments and modelling now demonstrate that lattices of these vortices can self-organize into patterns characterized by fe...
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Curvature-induced symmetry breaking determines elastic surface patterns
Symmetry-breaking transitions associated with the buckling and folding of curved multilayered surfaces—which are common to a wide range of systems and processes such as embryogenesis, tissue differentiation an...
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Engines and demons
Brownian motion in a feedback-controlled optical trap provides a minimal experimental realization of a Szilárd engine, confirming fluctuation theorems and demonstrating the importance of spontaneous symmetry b...
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Consistent thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures
Over the past 60 years, a considerable number of theories and experiments have claimed the existence of negative absolute temperature in spin systems and ultracold quantum gases. This has led to speculation th...
