Although rigidity and jamming transitions have been widely studied in physics and material
science, their importance in a number of biological processes, including embryo …

Living systems are complex dynamic entities that operate far from thermodynamic
equilibrium. Their active, non-equilibrium behaviour requires energy to drive cellular …

Life is a nonequilibrium phenomenon: Metabolism provides a continuous supply of energy
that drives nearly all cellular processes. However, very little is known about how much …

The name active matter refers to any collection of entities that individually use free energy to
generate their own motion and forces. Through interactions, active particles spontaneously …

We study fluctuating field models with spontaneously emerging dynamical phases. We
consider two typical transition scenarios associated with parity-time symmetry breaking …

The Escherichia coli chemoreceptors form an extensive array that achieves cooperative and
adaptive sensing of extracellular signals. The receptors control the activity of histidine kinase …

Living systems are intrinsically nonequilibrium: They use metabolically derived chemical
energy to power their emergent dynamics and self-organization. A crucial driver of these …

Sperm swimming is crucial to fertilize the egg, in nature and in assisted reproductive
technologies. Modeling the sperm dynamics involves elasticity, hydrodynamics, internal …

Nonequilibrium processes break time-reversal symmetry and generate entropy. Living
systems are driven out-of-equilibrium at the microscopic level of molecular motors that …

Closely related to the laws of thermodynamics, the detection and quantification of
disequilibria are crucial in unraveling the complexities of nature, particularly those beneath …