The Minc Lab published a new article in Current Biology: Cell division: Size-scaling cytoplasmic flows transport chromosomes to the right spot   Abstract: Early embryos undergo rounds of division, producing cells of reducing sizes that must scale the distance chromosomes segregate. A new study shows that this scaling results from a cell-size-dependent dampening of cytoplasmic flows that advect…

The Minc Lab published a new article in Journal of the royal society interface: Dynamic clamping induces rotation-to-beating transition of pinned filaments in gliding assays Abstract: We used numerical simulations to investigate how properties of motor proteins control the dynamical behaviour of driven flexible filaments. A filament on top of a patch of anchored motor proteins is…

The ProtéoSeine platform contributed to the publication of a new article published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectometry: Electron Transfer Dissociation and Synchrotron UV Photodissociation of Trapped Sodiated Ions Produced From Polyacrylates by Electrospray Ionization   Abstract: Rationale Poly (acrylates)s can be distinguished from one another by the nature of their side chains. From model poly (acrylates)s, the…

The Ladoux/Mege Lab published a new article dans PNAS: Flocking and giant fluctuations in epithelial active solids   Significance During embryonic development and wound healing, epithelial cells usually display in-plane polarity over large spatial scales and move coherently. However, most in vitro studies have examined the fluid-like chaotic dynamics of epithelial cells, in which collective cellular flows…