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 systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymatic activity can induce
broken detailed balance at the molecular scale. This molecular scale breaking of detailed …

Active matter systems are driven out of thermal equilibrium by a lack of generalized Stokes-
Einstein relation between injection and dissipation of energy at the microscopic scale. We …

Molecular motors in cells typically produce highly directed motion; however, the aggregate,
incoherent effect of all active processes also creates randomly fluctuating forces, which drive …

Active matter encompasses systems whose individual constituents dissipate energy to exert
propelling forces on their environment. These systems exhibit dynamical phenomena with …

The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Active-matter systems operate far from equilibrium because of the continuous energy
injection at the scale of constituent particles. At larger scales, described by coarse-grained …

In microrheology, the local and bulk mechanical properties of a complex fluid are extracted
from the motion of probe particles embedded within it. In passive microrheology, particles …

Chromosomal loci jiggle in place between segregation events in prokaryotic cells and
during interphase in eukaryotic nuclei. This motion seems random and is often attributed to …

Acanthamoebae are free-living protists and human pathogens, whose cellular functions and
pathogenicity strongly depend on the transport of intracellular vesicles and granules through …