Biological magnetometers, driven by mechanisms like radical-pair, magnetite, and MagR, may approach the quantum energy resolution limit, linking magnetic sensitivity to Planck’s constant and guiding advancements in biomimetic sensing technologies.

A generic model of the cochlea supports two distinct types of modes and reveals how activity in individual hair cells collectively creates a critical cochlea.

This combined theoretical and experimental study of spontaneous density waves in confined epithelial cell trains highlights the mechanochemical feedback driving oscillations and shaping responses to external forces within size-constrained, one-dimensional tissues.

Quantum embedding methods mitigate the orthogonality catastrophe problem of initial state preparation in large molecular systems, such as proteins and nucleic acids, paving the way for the use of quantum phase estimation for ground state energy calculations.

Biological magnetometers, driven by mechanisms like radical-pair, magnetite, and MagR, may approach the quantum energy resolution limit, linking magnetic sensitivity to Planck’s constant and guiding advancements in biomimetic sensing technologies.

Detrended fluctuation analysis reveals altered long-range correlations in epilepsy, enabling machine learning models trained on these features to outperform spectral methods in classifying epileptic responses to intermittent photic stimulation in non-photosensitive epilepsy.

Yeast populations adapt to environmental changes through two distinct modes, determined by stress familiarity: rare stressors trigger uniform adaptation, while familiar ones elicit diverse responses, reflected in gene expression variability.

Proliferation of immobilized bacteria subjected to transient nutrient gradients reveals a variety of banded patterns which can be modified through either genetic or chemical environment changes.

Simulations reveal that reversing cytoplasmic swirls in C. elegans zygotes arise spontaneously from the interplay of endoplasmic reticulum elasticity and hydrodynamic forces, enabling efficient intracellular mixing during embryogenesis.

FtsZ filaments form diverse structures, including Z-rings, through dynamic transitions driven by treadmilling and mechanical stresses.

Ecosystem responses to perturbations can be predicted introducing a universal geometric framework that maps species-resource interactions onto vector spaces, revaling fundamental limits on inferring ecological interactions from perturbation data.

Intrinsically disordered regions are gatekeepers of biomolecular condensates, excluding intruder molecules by imposing a size-dependent entropic free-energy barrier.

A phase field model of cancer cell invasion explores how confinement, adhesion, and chemotaxis control whether clumps of cells break off from the invading front, capturing experimental behavior observed in microfluidic channels.

When there is a balance between strong excitation and negative adaptive feedback, random inputs can drive a network of neurons toward synchronized bursting and power-law avalanches, mirroring patterns observed in the brain.

Motor proteins which create DNA loops can orient the E. coli chromosome and position its left and right arms on opposite sides of the cell without the need for anchoring, as shown in this study using theory and 3D polymer simulations.

By tracking single-molecules, this study shows that circular DNA threads through kinesin-driven microtubule networks, exhibiting enhanced superdiffusion and subdiffusion compared to linear DNA, with DNA topology coupling directed motion and stalling to modulate transport.

Q-BiC is a platform containing integrated microcircuitry that facilitates non-invasive spin-based quantum sensing inside living cells and organisms, allowing for multimodal real-time data acquisition without affecting biological function.

A framework uncovering hidden integral control systems reveals a universal topological principle governing biochemical robust perfect adaptation.

Densely packed protein cores have the same interior packing density irrespective of overall fold, arising from a jamming transition where amino acids reach a critical, incompressible density, as explained by an all-atom polymer model.