Understanding complex systems often requires a bottom-up analysis towards a systems
biology approach. The need to investigate a system, not only as individual components but …

The success of new scientific areas can be assessed by their potential in contributing to new
theoretical approaches and in applications to real-world problems. Complex networks have …

Complex systems research is becoming ever more important in both the natural and social
sciences. It is commonly implied that there is such a thing as a complex system, different …

Physical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics
for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell …

Chain-folding represents a motif configuration in lamellar polymer crystals as well as in
protein beta-sheets. This report presents a survey on our current understanding about …

Cell polarity networks are defined by quantitative features of their constituent feedback
circuits, which must be tuned to enable robust and stable polarization, while also ensuring …

We want to understand whether and to what extent the maximal (Carnot) efficiency for heat
engines can be reached at a finite power. To this end we generalize the Carnot cycle so that …

Many toxin–antitoxin (TA) loci are known to strongly repress their own transcription. This
auto-inhibition is often called 'conditional cooperativity'as it relies on cooperative binding of …

The description of a conducting medium in thermal equilibrium, such as an electrolyte
solution or a plasma, involves nonlinear electrostatics, a subject rarely discussed in the …

How confinement or a physical constraint modifies polymer chains is not only a classical
problem in polymer physics but also relevant in a variety of contexts such as single-molecule …