We review approaches aimed at deciphering the physical mechanisms responsible for viral
structure and assembly. We discuss the basic principles of condensed matter physics …

Most of the biological interfaces are curved. Understanding the organizational structures and
interaction patterns at such curved biointerfaces is therefore crucial not only for deepening …

Urinary collecting tubules form during kidney embryogenesis through the branching of the
ureteric bud epithelium. A travelling mesenchyme niche of nephron progenitor cells caps …

Summary Background: Red blood cells (RBCs) undergo a natural aging process occurring
in the blood circulation throughout the RBC lifespan or during routine cold storage in the …

For HIV virions to become infectious, the immature lattice of Gag polyproteins attached to the
virion membrane must be cleaved. Cleavage cannot initiate without the protease formed by …

We investigate the influence of curvature and topology on crystalline dimpled patterns on the
surface of generic elastic bilayers. Our numerical analysis predicts that the total number of …

Crystallization on spherical surfaces is obliged by topology to induce lattice defects. But
controlling the organization of such defects remains a great challenge due to the long-range …

In many important systems exhibiting crackling noise—an intermittent avalanchelike
relaxation response with power-law and, thus, self-similar distributed event sizes—the “laws” …

Cyclic loading on granular packings and amorphous media exhibits a transition from
reversible elastic behavior to irreversible plasticity. The present study compares the …

Active, tunable, and reversible opening and closing of particle shells on droplets may
facilitate chemical reactions in droplets and enable various small-scale laboratory …