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The spatial structure of the cell is highly organized at all levels: from small complexes and assemblies, to local nano- and micro-clusters, to global, micrometer scales across and between cells. We suggest that this multiscale spatial cell…

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Hyperuniform disordered photonic materials (HDPM) are spatially correlated dielectric structures with unconventional optical properties. They can be transparent to long-wavelength radiation while at the same time have isotropic band gaps in…

Understanding chromatin organization and dynamics is important since they crucially affect DNA functions. In this study, we investigate chromatin dynamics by statistically analyzing single-nucleosome movement in living human cells. Bi-modal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 S. S. Ashwin , Tadasu Nozaki , Kazuhiro Maeshima , Masaki Sasai

Intracellular transport is vital for the proper functioning and survival of a cell. Cargo (proteins, vesicles, organelles, etc.) is transferred from its place of creation to its target locations via molecular motor assisted transport along…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Anne E. Hafner , Heiko Rieger

The function of protein, RNA, and DNA is modulated by fast, dynamic exchanges between three-dimensional conformations. Conformational sampling of biomolecules with exact and nullspace inverse kinematics, using rotatable bonds as revolute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Rasmus Fonseca , Dominik Budday , Henry van den Bedem

We present Brownian dynamics simulations of the facilitated diffusion of a protein, modelled as a sphere with a binding site on its surface, along DNA, modelled as a semi-flexible polymer. We consider both the effect of DNA organisation in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-10 C. A. Brackley , M. E. Cates , D. Marenduzzo

Single molecule time trajectories of biomolecules provide glimpses into complex folding landscapes that are difficult to visualize using conventional ensemble measurements. Recent experiments and theoretical analyses have highlighted…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-08 Wonseok Hwang , Il-Buem Lee , Seok-Cheol Hong , Changbong Hyeon

Cells receive signaling molecules by receptors and relay information via sensory networks so that they can respond properly depending on the type of signal. Recent studies have shown that cells can extract multi-dimensional information from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Understanding the structures of biological macromolecules is highly important as they are closely associated with cellular functionalities. Comprehending the precise organization actin filaments is crucial because they form the dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Salim Sazzed

This paper aims to efficiently compute transport maps between probability distributions arising from particle representation of bio-physical problems. We develop a bidirectional DeepParticle (BDP) method to learn and generate solutions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Tan Zhang , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

The interactions between diffusing molecules and membrane-bound receptors drive numerous cellular processes. In this work, we develop a spatial model of molecular interactions with membrane receptors by homogenizing the cell membrane and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-24 Anil Cengiz , Sean D Lawley

Biomolecular condensates provide distinct chemical environments, which control various cellular processes. The diffusive dynamics and chemical kinetics inside phase-separated condensates can be studied experimentally by fluorescently…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-26 Stefano Bo , Lars Hubatsch , Frank Jülicher

We demonstrate a large grid of individually addressable superconducting single photon detectors on a single chip. Each detector element is fully integrated into an independent waveguide circuit with custom functionality at telecom…

Single-molecule tracking (SMT) methods are under considerable expansion in many fields of cell biology, as the dynamics of cellular components in biological mechanisms becomes increasingly relevant. Despite the development of SMT…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-08 Sylvain Tollis

Single-molecule experimental techniques track the real-time dynamics of molecules by recording a small number of experimental observables. Following these observables provides a coarse-grained, low-dimensional representation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Maximilian Topel , Andrew L. Ferguson

Nuclei detection is an important task in the histology domain as it is a main step toward further analysis such as cell counting, cell segmentation, study of cell connections, etc. This is a challenging task due to the complex texture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Navid Alemi Koohababni , Mostafa Jahanifar , Ali Gooya , Nasir Rajpoot

Under the local plasmonic excitation, the Raman images of a single molecule can now reach sub-nanometer resolution. We report here a theoretical description of the interaction between a molecule and a highly confined plasmonic field. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Sai Duan , Guangjun Tian , Yongfei Ji , Jiushu Shao , Zhenchao Dong , Yi Luo

Resonant Energy Transfer (RET) from an optically excited donor molecule (D) to a non-excited acceptor molecule (A) residing nearby is widely used to detect molecular interactions in living cells. Stoichiometric information, such as the…

Accurate single-cell analysis is critical for diagnostics, immunomonitoring, and cell therapy, but coincident events - where multiple cells overlap in a sensing zone - can severely compromise signal fidelity. We present a hybrid framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Moritz Leuthner , Rafael Vorländer , Oliver Hayden

Different cell types aggregate and sort into hierarchical architectures during the formation of animal tissues. The resulting spatial organization depends (in part) on the strength of adhesion of one cell type to itself relative to other…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-02 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Alexandria Volkening , Björn Sandstede , Ian Y. Wong