From actin waves to mechanism and back: how theory aids biological understanding

C Beta, L Edelstein-Keshet, N Gov, A Yochelis - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Actin dynamics in cell motility, division, and phagocytosis is regulated by complex factors
with multiple feedback loops, often leading to emergent dynamic patterns in the form of …

Structure and function in artificial, zebrafish and human neural networks

P Ji, Y Wang, T Peron, C Li, J Nagler, J Du - Physics of Life Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Network science provides a set of tools for the characterization of the structure and
functional behavior of complex systems. Yet a major problem is to quantify how the structural …

Light-steerable locomotion using zero-elastic-energy modes

Z Deng, K Li, A Priimagi, H Zeng - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Driving synthetic materials out of equilibrium via dissipative mechanisms paves the way
towards autonomous, self-sustained robotic motions. However, obtaining agile movement in …

Physical bioenergetics: Energy fluxes, budgets, and constraints in cells

X Yang, M Heinemann, J Howard… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Cells are the basic units of all living matter which harness the flow of energy to drive the
processes of life. While the biochemical networks involved in energy transduction are well …

[HTML][HTML] The physics of active polymers and filaments

RG Winkler, G Gompper - The journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Active matter agents consume internal energy or extract energy from the environment for
locomotion and force generation. Already, rather generic models, such as ensembles of …

Quantifying the underlying landscape, entropy production and biological path of the cell fate decision between apoptosis and pyroptosis

J Jin, F Xu, Z Liu, J Shuai, X Li - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
Pyroptosis, a recently identified type of cell death, and apoptosis are fundamental and
complex biological processes that underlie a multitude of diseases. However, the crosstalk …

Topology of the landscape and dominant kinetic path for the thermodynamic phase transition of the charged Gauss-Bonnet-AdS black holes

R Li, C Liu, K Zhang, J Wang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the generalized free energy of the five dimensional charged Gauss-Bonnet anti–
de Sitter (AdS) black holes in the grand canonical ensemble by treating the black hole …

Deformation conjecture: deforming lower dimensional integrable systems to higher dimensional ones by using conservation laws

SY Lou, X Hao, M Jia - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Utilizing some conservation laws of (1+ 1)-dimensional integrable local evolution
systems, it is conjectured that higher dimensional integrable equations may be regularly …

Designing Highly Ordered Helical and Nonhelical Porous Crystalline and Disordered Nonhelical Columnar Liquid Crystalline Self-Organizations

D Sahoo, M Peterca, V Percec - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Helical self-organizations are equilibrium structures responsible for the assembly of
nonequilibrium and equilibrium living and synthetic systems. Racemic helical columnar …

Mutual linearity of nonequilibrium network currents

PE Harunari, S Dal Cengio, V Lecomte, M Polettini - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
For continuous-time Markov chains and open unimolecular chemical reaction networks, we
prove that any two stationary currents are linearly related upon perturbations of a single …