The interior of a living cell is a crowded, heterogenuous, fluctuating environment. Hence, a
major challenge in modeling intracellular transport is to analyze stochastic processes within …

The passage of individual molecules through nanosized pores in membranes is central to
many processes in biology. Previously, experiments have been restricted to naturally …

One of the major challenges in modern biology is to understand how the molecular
components of a living cell operate in a highly noisy environment. What are the specific …

In systems possessing spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, Brownian motion combined
with unbiased external input signals, deterministic and random alike, can assist directed …

I review single-molecule experiments (SMEs) in biological physics. Recent technological
developments have provided the tools to design and build scientific instruments of high …

Probably no other field of statistical physics at the borderline of soft matter and biological
physics has caused such a flurry of papers as polymer translocation since the 1994 …

The relaxation, diffusion and translocation dynamics of single linear polymer chains in
confinement is briefly reviewed with emphasis on the comparison between theoretical …

Solid-state nanopores are considered a promising tool for the study of biological polymers
such as DNA and RNA, due largely to their flexibility in size, potential in device integration …

We study biased, diffusive transport of Brownian particles through narrow, spatially periodic
structures in which the motion is constrained in lateral directions. The problem is analyzed …

We demonstrate the means to integrate two powerful and widely used single-molecule
techniques, viz., optical tweezers and solid-state nanopores. This setup permits …