The bottom‐up construction of a synthetic cell from nonliving building blocks capable of
mimicking cellular properties and behaviors helps to understand the particular biophysical …

The past few decades have seen emerging growth in the field of soft materials for synthetic
biology. This review focuses on soft materials involved in biological and artificial …

Above-optimal growth temperatures, usually referred to as heat stress (HS), pose a
challenge to organisms' survival as they interfere with essential physiological functions and …

Polyploidy is a key mechanism of genome evolution and speciation, particularly in plants.
Many aspects of polyploidy have been elucidated with the tools that have become available …

It has become customary to conceptualize the living cell as an intricate piece of machinery,
different to a man-made machine only in terms of its superior complexity. This familiar …

Biological membranes exhibit diversity in their shapes and complexity in chemical
compositions that are linked to many cellular functions. These two central features of …

Aging exhibits several hallmarks in common with cancer, such as cellular senescence,
dysbiosis, inflammation, genomic instability, and epigenetic changes. In recent decades …

Pathogenic intracellular bacteria, parasites and viruses have evolved sophisticated
mechanisms to manipulate mammalian host cells to serve as niches for persistence and …

We present FreeDTS software for performing computational research on biomembranes at
the mesoscale. In this software, a membrane is represented by a dynamically triangulated …

Shapes of biomembrane in living cells are regulated by curvature-inducing proteins.
However, the effects of membrane deformation on signal transductions such as chemical …