Life emerges from thousands of biochemical processes occurring within a shared
intracellular environment. We have gained deep insights from in vitro reconstitution of …

Active matter includes living and nonliving systems that have in common that they contain
energy-consuming and forcegenerating microscopic constituents that drive emergent …

Sažetak Cell mechanics is a multidisciplinary field that bridges cell biology with fundamental
mechanics, and micro and nanotechnology, which synergize to help us better understand …

Viewing cells as matter to understand the intracellular biomolecular processes and
multicellular tissue behavior represents an emerging research area at the interface of …

Living cells are complex entities whose remarkable, emergent capacity to sense, integrate,
and respond to environmental cues relies on an intricate series of interactions among the …

Our understanding of cells has progressed rapidly in recent years, mainly because of
technological advances. Modern technology now allows us to observe molecular processes …

An introduction to the physical properties of living active matter at the mesoscopic scale
(tens of nanometers to micrometers) and their unique features compared with “dead,” …

All living cells are crowded with macromolecules. Crowding can directly modulate
biochemical reactions to various degrees depending on the sizes, shapes, and binding …

The remarkable processes that characterize living organisms, such as motility, self-healing
and reproduction, are fuelled by a continuous injection of energy at the microscale. The field …

Living cells actively migrate in their environment to perform key biological functions—from
unicellular organisms looking for food to single cells such as fibroblasts, leukocytes or …