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    Substrate evaporation drives collective construction in termites

    Giulio Facchini, Alann Rathery ... Andrea Perna
    Evidence of a relationship between substrate curvature, water evaporation and the building behavior of termites capable of mediating collective nest-building with no need for a building pheromone.
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    Theory of active self-organization of dense nematic structures in the actin cytoskeleton

    Waleed Mirza, Marco De Corato ... Marino Arroyo
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Yeast cell responses and survival during periodic osmotic stress are controlled by glucose availability

    Fabien Duveau, Céline Cordier ... Pascal Hersen
    Microfluidic methods are used to quantitatively probe single yeast cells' response to either simultaneous or sequential stresses, revealing the dynamic interplay between two antagonistic inputs, osmotic stress and glucose starvation.
    1. Cell Biology
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    Mitosis sets nuclear homeostasis of cancer cells under confinement

    Malèke Mouelhi, Alexis Saffon ... Charlotte Rivière
    1. Developmental Biology
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    The Geometric Basis of Epithelial Convergent Extension

    Fridtjof Brauns, Nikolas H. Claussen ... Boris I. Shraiman
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    Hydrodynamics and multiscale order in confluent epithelia

    Josep-Maria Armengol-Collado, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi
    Confluent cellular layers display the remarkable ability of supportingmultiscale orientational order, that is the existence of different typeof liquid crystal order at different length scales.
    1. Cell Biology
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    Caveolin-1 protects endothelial cells from extensive expansion of transcellular tunnel by stiffening the plasma membrane

    Camille Morel, Eline Lemerle ... Emmanuel Lemichez
    Caveolin-1 controls the width of transendothelial cell tunnels via a direct or indirect effect on membrane bending rigidity.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Potassium-mediated bacterial chemotactic response

    Chi Zhang, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan
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    Structural basis for the preservation of a subset of topologically associating domains in interphase chromosomes upon cohesin depletion

    Davin Jeong, Guang Shi ... D Thirumalai
    The finding that deletion of the genome folding motor leaves a significant fraction of a key structural feature of chromosome at the single cell and ensemble level has been explained.