Nonlocal Structural Effects of Water on DNA Homology Recognition

E Haimov, JG Hedley, AA Kornyshev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03213, 2024 - arxiv.org
The mechanism behind mutual recognition of homologous DNA sequences prior to genetic
recombination is one of the remaining puzzles in molecular biology. Leading models of …

Universal Casimir attraction between filaments at the cell scale

B Spreng, H Berthoumieux, A Lambrecht… - New Journal Of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The electromagnetic Casimir interaction between dielectric objects immersed in salted water
includes a universal contribution that is not screened by the solvent and therefore long …