Cell biology articles within Nature Physics

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• Editorial | 08 December 2023

  Lost and found in translation

  Many advances in biological physics result from multidisciplinary collaborations. We celebrate the physics of life with a collection of articles that offer insight into successful interactions between researchers from different fields.

• Thesis | 06 October 2022

  Fat chance of escaping obesogens

  • Mark Buchanan

• Thesis | 08 January 2021

  Reconsider the bacterium

  • Mark Buchanan

• Research Highlight | 06 April 2020

  Active material in bulk

  • Elizaveta Dubrovina

• News & Views | 04 March 2019

  Island hopping for cells

  A two-state hopping experiment combined with a dynamical systems model reveals that cancer cells are deterministically driven across barriers, whereas normal cells cross only with the help of stochastic fluctuations.

  • Ulrich S. Schwarz

• Research Highlight | 04 December 2018

  Wave machine

  • Abigail Klopper

• Research Highlight | 04 June 2018

  Metachronal magnets

  • Abigail Klopper

• News & Views | 09 April 2018

  The push for a place in the crowd

  Cells change shape and volume when they divide — not a simple task, especially when they are confined by surrounding tissue. Experiments now reveal that hydrostatic pressure changes generate the pushing forces that cells need to create space for division.

  • Jacob Notbohm
  •  & Brian Burkel

• Research Highlights | 03 May 2017

  Crowd control

  • Abigail Klopper

• Research Highlights | 02 February 2016

  Attachment issues

  • Abigail Klopper

• Research Highlights | 02 June 2015

  Cell swell

  • Abigail Klopper