… We found that the glass-forming behavior of IVCEs and in living cells are quantitatively
universal, which were not expected prior to this study (Figs 1 and 5). Chemical details of …

… The viscosity in living cells showed … glass-forming behavior of in vitro and living cytoplasms
can be understood by the concept of“fragility”. The Angell plot of our data showed that in vitro …

… Cells depleted of ATP solidified, whereas living cells that maintained metabolic … to the
cytoplasmic contribution. In this study, we aim to investigate how the mechanics of the cytoplasm is …

… In this study, the mechanics of the living cytoplasm were … The mechanics of such crowded
cytoplasm are as important … that the cytoplasm may possess glass-forming capabilities, …

… the bacterial cytoplasm has a property similar to glass-forming … This monotonic behavior of
bacterial growth breaks down at … Finally, we obtained the following universal equation for the …

… interior of living cells, specifically the cytoplasm of bacteria (… This clustering tendency has
been reported rather universally … as in the case of passive glass-forming systems. Interestingly, …

… manipulate the cytoplasmic density in live cells without … oscillatory behavior presents hysteresis
as a function of cytoplasmic density. … density adds an example of this important universal …

… entropy of glass-forming liquids, we refer the reader to [76]. … dynamics of both living samples
and in vitro models from which … In living cells, the intracellular cytoplasm appears to switch …

… Thus, desiccated larvae have optical properties similar to those of dried proteins in vitro or
glass, and quite unlike living matter. This, together with the transition of the cytoplasm from a …