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

1/3 A neuron's nucleus ships mRNA down microtubule tracks to thousands of synapses — and there's no address on the package. New modeling says the molecules don't drift like drunks: they walk with momentum. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

HAPPENING NOW! 🚨Join us right now in Regents 239 for today's Departmental Seminar Series featuring Dr. Alison Patteson (Syracuse University)! We hope to see you there! 🔬🧫#GeorgetownBiology #DepartmentalSeminar #Biophysics #Genomics #STEM #AcademicTwitter #BiologySeminars

1/3 A tubulin dimer can rest in one of two tilted positions — like a light switch that's up or down. Model a microtubule as a chain of these two-state switches, and the equations collapse into something solvable. #academicsky #biophysics #neuroskyence

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🚨 New review paper on swimming snow algae 🦠. We survey interaction with crystals ❄️ and relevant taxes ↗️ for know snow species. Great first PhD paper by Caitlin de Vries! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2... #algae #snow #biophysics #MicroSky

1/3 Your cells don't just make 'reactive oxygen species.' They choose between them — superoxide or hydrogen peroxide. A weak oscillating magnetic field can shift that choice, via quantum spin. No heating required. #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

Our new review explores how phase separation and biomolecular condensates link cancer-driving fusion proteins to altered gene expression and chromatin organisation.

Connecting biophysics with cancer biology.

doi.org/10.1080/2993...

#CancerResearch #Biophysics

Registration open until 15 February for EMBO | FEBS Lecture Course "Physical #virology: From form to function" in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 13–18 June 2027!

https://meetings.embo.org/event/27-physical-virology
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1/3 Your proteins don't just bump into each other — they shake hands. But each protein has only a few hands, and how many it has decides whether it stays dissolved or condenses into a droplet. Could that number be the whole story? #academicsky #biophysics #philsci

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

Kings College London is hiring:
Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

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Biohybrid molecular–microbial architectures for electron transfer engineering

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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

#postdoc #chemsky #biophysics

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