Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have applied ideas from polymer physics to illuminate the mechanism behind a key pathology in Alzheimer's disease, the formation of fibrils of tau ...

Turbulence, the chaotic, irregular motion that causes the bumpiness we sometimes experience on an airplane, has intrigued scientists for centuries. At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...

Loop-extrusion and phase-separation have been proposed as mechanisms that shape chromosome spatial organization. It is unclear, however, how they perform relative to each other in explaining chromatin ...

Gene expression patterns are governed by the hierarchical organization of the genome. Numerous efforts, leveraging both polymer physics-based models and experimental imaging technologies, have sought ...

Liheng Cai’s breakthroughs rewrite the rules of polymer physics, opening possibilities for designing better materials in health care and sustainability The American Physical Society has awarded its ...