2 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Soft matter science and the COVID-19 pandemic
Wilson C K Poon, Aidan T Brown, Susana O. L. Direito +9
Much of the science underpinning the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic lies in the soft matter domain. Coronaviruses are composite particles with a core of nucleic acids com…
q-bio.PE2018
Reduced adhesion between cells and substrate confers selective advantage in bacterial colonies
Craig Watson, Paul Hush, Joshua Williams +4
Microbial colonies cultured on agar Petri dishes have become a model system to study biological evolution in populations expanding in space. Processes such as clonal segregation an…