most citedSpontaneous creation of macroscopic flow and metachronal waves in an array of cilia

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q-bio.BM2007★ 70 cited

The Worm-Like Chain Theory And Bending Of Short DNA

Alexey K. Mazur

The probability distributions for bending angles in double helical DNA obtained in all-atom molecular dynamics simulations are compared with theoretical predictions. The computed d…

physics.bio-ph2006★ 234 cited

Spontaneous creation of macroscopic flow and metachronal waves in an array of cilia

Boris Guirao, Jean-François Joanny

Cells or bacteria carrying cilia on their surface show many striking features : alignment of cilia in an array, two-phase asymmetric beating for each cilium, coordination between c…

q-bio.BM2006★ 165 cited

Wringing out DNA

Timothee Lionnet, Sylvain Joubaud, Richard Lavery +2

The chiral nature of DNA plays a crucial role in cellular processes. Here we use magnetic tweezers to explore one of the signatures of this chirality, the coupling between stretch…