The molecular machinery that enables life has evolved in water, yet many of the organisms
around us are able to survive even extreme desiccation. Especially remarkable are single …

Active glassy matter has recently emerged as a novel class of non-equilibrium soft matter,
combining energy-driven, active particle movement with dense and disordered glass-like …

We analyze the structure of the cytoplasm by performing single-molecule displacement
mapping on a diverse set of native cytoplasmic proteins in exponentially growing …

Living cells harvest energy from their environments to drive the chemical processes that
enable life. We introduce a minimal system that operates at similar protein concentrations …

The cytoplasm is highly organized. However, the extent to which this organization influences
the dynamics of cytoplasmic proteins is not well understood. Here, we use Xenopus laevis …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical value of dynamic contrast enhanced ultrasound (D-
CEUS) in predicting the microvascular invasion (MVI) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) …

The formation of cytomimetic protocells that capture the physicochemical aspects of living
cells is an important goal in bottom-up synthetic biology. Here, we recreated the crowded …

A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid,
forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase …

All living cells are crowded with macromolecules. Crowding can directly modulate
biochemical reactions to various degrees depending on the sizes, shapes, and binding …

Based on recent findings indicating that metabolism might be governed by a limit on the rate
at which cells can dissipate Gibbs energy, in this Perspective, we propose a new …