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1/3 Your cell membrane is a 5-nanometre-thick fluid sheet. Zap it with a radiofrequency field and it flexes, stretches, even opens pores. Which comes first — the electrical force, or the mechanical squeeze? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

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1/3 What if a filament could remember its own bend and switch stiffness on demand? Imagine a microtubule that toggles between stiff and floppy simply by changing its spontaneous curvature—how could cells exploit such a shape‑memory switch? #academicsky #biophysics #sciwri

1/3 Your cells' filaments — microtubules, actin — bend. But some of them prefer to be curved, even with no force applied. What happens to a filament's stiffness when its own shape memory can switch on and off? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique is hiring:
Postdoc in Structure-Function Analysis of Proteins

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1/3 Could a cell swim with no tail, no flagellum, no propeller? Put a weakly deflated lipid vesicle in water, let its membrane and cytoskeleton push from within — and it migrates on its own. What drives that motion? #academicsky #biophysics #physics

3/3 If kinesin can encode information, what cellular functions might exploit this hidden channel? Could we harness it for bio‑nanotech computing? Share your thoughts! #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 What if the tiny motor that ferries cargo inside cells not only walks but also writes information into its steps? Could a single kinesin act as a nanoscale information engine? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

Looking forward to tomorrow’s NWO #Biophysics symposium, and especially also @kaytrue.bsky.social keynote lecture: “Two extremes of liquid-liquid phase separation in membranes: minimal, artificial membranes with two lipids versus living, biological membranes with hundreds of components” #LLPS ..

1/3 Your cell's outer membrane is a fluid — but how fluid? Measuring viscosity in honey is easy. For a 5-nanometer-thick lipid bilayer, it took a new molecular-dynamics method. Would you guess it's closer to olive oil or to water? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

3/3 So-what: endocytosis is how cells take in nutrients, receptors, and drugs. If a weak RF field nudges that rate, dosimetry can't stop at heating — the field's electric component has to enter the model. What would you want tested first? #academicsky #biophysics

1/3 Your cells drink. They sip the fluid around them in tiny vesicles — and a mobile-phone-like radiofrequency field can speed that sipping up. Not by heating the cells. The electric field itself did it. Would you have guessed a field could do that? #academicsky #biophysics #sciart

I’m delighted to contribute to this research. #AXL #FCCS #biophysics #ttu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/3 Your cells pull things inside using entropy. Not a chemical lock-and-key — the cytoskeleton's own jiggling nudges receptors together until they're close enough to bind. The first step of endocytosis may be pure statistics. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

Very excited about every single one of the five abstracts that my group has been involved in that were submitted for the BPS 2027 meeting in Philly!

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1/3 Kinesin walks microtubules in 8-nanometer steps, burning ATP. A new theory asks: how much of that energy becomes motion — and how much becomes information? The motor spends part of its budget suppressing its own fluctuations. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 Zap a living cell with a brief electric pulse and two things happen: its membrane opens, and it starts making reactive oxygen species. That second part wasn't in the original plan. Would you call that damage — or signalling? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

A new Special Issue of the European Biophysics Journal dedicated to MOSBRI is now available, gathering research from the molecular biophysics community. Explore the collection: https://link.springer.com/collections/idcdjihhdb

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