Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) have gained great popularity as mimicries for cellular
membranes. As their sizes are comfortably above the optical resolution limit, and their lipid …

During mitosis, cells undergo symmetrical cell division, while oocyte meiotic maturation
undergoes two consecutive, asymmetric divisions that generate a totipotent haploid oocyte …

One of the grand challenges of bottom-up synthetic biology is the development of minimal
machineries for cell division. The mechanical transformation of large-scale compartments …

Active stresses are generated and transmitted throughout diverse F-actin architectures
within the cell cytoskeleton, and drive essential behaviors of the cell, from cell division to …

The importance of curvature as a structural feature of biological membranes has been
recognized for many years and has fascinated scientists from a wide range of different …

Actomyosin contractility plays a central role in a wide range of cellular processes, including
the establishment of cell polarity, cell migration, tissue integrity, and morphogenesis during …

Cells adopt distinct signaling pathways to optimize cell locomotion in different physical
microenvironments. However, the underlying mechanism that enables cells to sense and …

The cytoskeleton of a cell controls all the aspects of cell shape changes and motility from its
physiological functions for survival to reproduction to death. The structure and dynamics of …

Cell membrane deformations are crucial for proper cell function. Specialized protein
assemblies initiate inward or outward membrane deformations that the cell uses respectively …

When migratory T cells encounter antigen‐presenting cells (APCs), they arrest and form
radially symmetric, stable intercellular junctions termed immunological synapses which …