Most swimming bacteria are capable of following gradients of nutrients, signaling molecules
and other environmental factors that affect bacterial physiology. This tactic behavior became …

Recently burst stimulation and 10 kHz stimulation have been developed as novel stimulation
designs. Both appear to be superior to classical tonic stimulation in the amount of …

Spatial heterogeneity is a hallmark of living systems, even at the molecular scale in
individual cells. A key example is the partitioning of membrane-bound proteins via lipid …

Cellular networks are intrinsically subject to stochastic fluctuations, but analysis of the
resulting noise remained largely limited to gene expression. The pathway controlling …

Cooperative interactions among sensory receptors provide a general mechanism to
increase the sensitivity of signal transduction. In particular, bacterial chemotaxis receptors …

For directional movement, eukaryotic cells depend on the proper organization of their actin
cytoskeleton. This engine of motility is made up of highly dynamic nonequilibrium actin …

Dysfunctional neural activity in the cortical reward system network has been implicated in
food addiction. This is the first study exploring the potential therapeutic effects of high …

The reliable detection of environmental molecules in the presence of noise is an important
cellular function, yet the underlying computational mechanisms are not well understood. We …

This paper considers a diffusion-based molecular communication link assuming the receiver
uses chemical reactions. When the signalling molecules reach the receiver, they react with …

Trapping of diffusing particles by a cluster of absorbing disks on the otherwise reflecting wall
is a manifestly many-body problem because of the disk competition for the particles. By …