1/4 Every time a cell fires, it leaves a faint electromagnetic shadow around itself. The question haunting biophysics since the 1970s: is that shadow just exhaust — or is it a message? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 A crawling cell has no leader — yet its whole front can swing one way at once. New theory models the cell's edge as a ring of tiny 'spins,' each one either pushing outward or resting, that align like atoms in a magnet. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

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Why is life confined to such a narrow environmental range? New research reveals fluid dynamics holds the answer! Fundamental physical constants govern cellular viscosity, defining life's ultimate boundaries.

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1/3 Your cells may already be whispering — in microtubule vibrations, electric fields, faint light. But how many distinct 'words' can each channel carry before noise erases them? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 Your immune cells fire reactive oxygen species at bacteria. But the same molecules, at far lower doses, are how your cells talk to each other. The 'oxidative damage' story was only half the picture. #academicsky #biophysics #neuroskyence

1/5 A microtubule is a hollow tube of protein, stiff enough to hold a cell's shape. Run a strong electric field across it in a simulation and the tube's lattice cracks open — like a zipper giving way. No heat, no chemistry. Just force. #academicsky #biophysics #sciwri

Scientists make stunning discovery that could help explain why life exists #Science #Physics #Biophysics #finetuning #universeconstants #biologicallife #cosmicdiscovery #fundamentalphysics

https://purescience.news/read?id=235386802087657472

1/3 Molecular dynamics simulates every atom of a protein — but the honest version needs quantum mechanics, which is far too slow. Machine-learned force fields learn those rules and run orders of magnitude faster. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

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Deciphering coccolith formation: advanced microscopy insights from the biomineralization of Gephyrocapsa huxleyi doi.org/10.1098/rsif... | #JRSocInterface #Biophysics #EnvironmentalScience

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New research from #JRSocInterface: Collective adsorption of pheromones at the water-air interface doi.org/10.1098/rsif... | #Biophysics #EnvironmentalScience

Universitat Wien (@univie.ac.at) is hiring:
Lab Coordinator BioNMR Facility & Data Science Specialist

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#Ethics & #Economics each have a Golden Rule, ~do unto others~/~gold makes the rules~ but the Reich & Pin unifying theory of #biophysics has a Gonad Rule, ~impulses stem from the biological core~ applied equally to plants despite their gonads on the outside: a seed is still the core of the next gen.

3/3 If crowding alone can dial molecular mobility, could cells use the same trick — no motors, no signals, just packing — to tune reactions at their own membrane? What would that change about how we model signaling? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

1/3 Picture a cell membrane as a packed dance floor: the crowd decides how fast anyone can move. Swap the dancers for DNA 'nanostars' — branched molecules with sticky arms — and the packing alone sets the rules. #academicsky #biophysics #sciart

1/3 Press a stiff wire onto a sphere and it fights back — bending costs energy. DNA wrapping around histones faces the same problem, and now there's a general theory for it. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

🚨💡Can electric fields unravel proteins? ⚡ Our review explores how simulations reveal EF-induced disruption of α-helices and β-sheets, sometimes driving unfolding along distinct pathways.🔎👉https://shorturl.at/dfsBm

#ElectricFields #ProteinFolding #Biophysics #MolecularDynamics

3/3 The so-what: a neuron may steer cargo with statistics rather than a map — persistence plus a little randomness gets mRNA where a straight line couldn't. What else in a cell runs on memory-in-motion instead of machinery? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci