Adhesion can be quantified by measuring the distance between the interacting surfaces.
Reflection interference contrast microscopy (RICM), with its ability to measure inter‐surface …

T cells carry out the formidable task of identifying small numbers of foreign antigenic
peptides rapidly and specifically against a very noisy environmental background of …

Using a novel noncontact technique based on optical interferometry, we quantify the
nanoscale thermal fluctuations of red blood cells (RBCs) and giant unilamellar vesicles …

The nuclear envelope (NE) presents a physical boundary between the cytoplasm and the
nucleoplasm, sandwiched in between two highly active systems inside the cell: cytoskeleton …

Shape fluctuations of lipid membranes have intrigued cell biologists and physicists alike. In
the cellular context, their origin—thermal or active—and their physiological significance are …

The integrity of living tissues is maintained by adhesion domains of trans-bonds formed
between cadherin proteins residing on opposing membranes of neighbouring cells. These …

Cell adhesion is a paradigm of the ubiquitous interplay of cell signalling, modulation of
material properties and biological functions of cells. It is controlled by competition of short …

How do cells process environmental cues to make decisions? This simple question is still
generating much experimental and theoretical work, at the border of physics, chemistry and …

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) of live cells has received significant scientific interest over
the past decade or so, mainly because it offers structure and dynamics information at the …

Cell membranes are studded with protrusions that were thoroughly analyzed with electron
microscopy. However, the nanometer-scale three-dimensional motions generated by cell …