Author summary Living organisms build their bodies through morphogenesis, during which cells autonomously arrange themselves into functional structures such as sheets, tubes, and spheres. From simple ...

We introduce a minimal evolutionary model to show how local cooperation and global competition can create a transition to the diversity of communities such as linguistic groups. By using a lattice mod...

Enhanced enzyme diffusion (EED), in which the diffusion coefficient of an enzyme transiently increases during catalysis, has been extensively reported experimentally, although its existence remains un...

In multicellular organisms, cells differentiate into multiple types as they divide. States of these cell types, as well as their numbers, are known to be robust to external perturbations, as conceptua...

Spontaneous neural activity has been experimentally linked to learning ability. Here, the authors derive theoretical formulae showing that higher variance along task-relevant directions accelerates le...

The central dogma of molecular biology, as originally proposed by Crick, asserts that information passed into protein cannot flow back out. This principle has been interpreted as underpinning modern u...

Soil is a complex, dynamic material with physical properties that depend on its biological content. We propose a cellular automaton model for self-organizing soil structure, where soil aggregates serv...

Cambridge Core - Biological Physics and Soft Matter Physics - Theoretical Biology of the Cell

Social institutions are systems of shared norms and rules that regulate people’s behaviors, often emerging without external enforcement. They provi...