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Light-induced cortical excitability reveals programmable shape dynamics in starfish oocytes
Jinghui Liu, Tom Burkart, Alexander Ziepke +6
Chemo-mechanical waves on active deformable surfaces are a key component for many vital cellular functions. In particular, these waves play a major role in force generation and lon…
Scale-dependent irreversibility in living matter
Tzer Han Tan, Garrett A. Watson, Yu-Chen Chao +4
A defining feature of living matter is the ability to harness energy to self-organize multiscale structures whose functions are facilitated by irreversible nonequilibrium dynamics.…
Self-organization of stress patterns drives state transitions in actin cortices
Tzer Han Tan, Maya Malik Garbi, Enas Abu-Shah +6
Biological functions rely on ordered structures and intricately controlled collective dynamics. In contrast to systems in thermodynamic equilibrium, order is typically established…
Broken Detailed Balance of Filament Dynamics in Active Networks
J. Gladrow, N. Fakhri, F. C. MacKintosh +2
Myosin motor proteins drive vigorous steady-state fluctuations in the actin cytoskeleton of cells. Endogenous embedded semiflexible filaments such as microtubules, or added filamen…