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physics.bio-ph2020
Precision of protein thermometry
Michael Vennettilli, Soutick Saha, Ushasi Roy +1
Temperature sensing is a ubiquitous cell behavior, but the fundamental limits to the precision of temperature sensing are poorly understood. Unlike in chemical concentration sensin…
physics.bio-ph2020
Effects of cell-cell adhesion on migration of multicellular clusters
Ushasi Roy, Andrew Mugler
Collections of cells exhibit coherent migration during morphogenesis, cancer metastasis, and wound healing. In many cases, bigger clusters split, smaller sub-clusters collide and r…
physics.bio-ph2019
Statistics of correlated percolation in a bacterial community
Xiaoling Zhai, Joseph W. Larkin, Kaito Kikuchi +3
Signal propagation over long distances is a ubiquitous feature of multicellular communities. In biofilms of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, we recently discovered that some, but n…