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The cell cortex behaves like a sorting hat: it groups membrane proteins by how tightly they bind to dynamic actin.

Boris Shraiman is awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.

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We wanted to understand how cells arrange into precise patterns as the cochlea develops its spiral shape. We found that the cochlea is divided into smaller domains, each organising independently whil...

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Author summary Hearing, like other sensory modalities, is essential for animals to perceive and interact with their environment. The cochlea, the auditory sensory organ, develops under tight genetic r...

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Sound is sensed in the cochlea through a precisely organised epithelium. Prakash and colleagues show cellular organisation results from differences in junction contractility, finding mechanics is suff...

Sound is sensed in the cochlea through a precisely organised epithelium. Prakash and colleagues show cellular organisation results from differences in junction contractility, finding mechanics is suff...