Popular Summaries

Cell mechanical instability

• Bending Hollow Rods Under High Pressure

Cell signaling and swarming

• Discrete or Continuum? It Matters for Cells

Modeling gene expression

• Re-thinking gene expression

Mode of cellular growth

• Getting the right results

Phenomenology of cell size control across the tree of life

• New work sheds light on the structure of the cell cycle in bacteria and budding yeast
• Whether bacterial or archaeal, all happy families are alike
• Cellular division strategy shared across all domains of life

Phenotypic variability and its effect on population growth

• Research rethinks the evolutionary importance of variability in a population

Cell size control in bacteria

• How Bacteria Keep Track of their Size
• How cells tick

Bacterial mechanics

• Escherichia coli can get (mechanically) stressed out too
• Growing a cell wall by driven dislocations