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Cell mechanical instability

  • Bending Hollow Rods Under High Pressure

Cell signaling and swarming

  • Discrete or Continuum? It Matters for Cells

Modeling gene expression

  • Re-thinking gene expression

Mode of cellular growth

  • Getting the right results

Phenomenology of cell size control across the tree of life

  • New work sheds light on the structure of the cell cycle in bacteria and budding yeast
  • Whether bacterial or archaeal, all happy families are alike
  • Cellular division strategy shared across all domains of life

Phenotypic variability and its effect on population growth

  • Research rethinks the evolutionary importance of variability in a population

Cell size control in bacteria

  • How Bacteria Keep Track of their Size
  • How cells tick

Bacterial mechanics

  • Escherichia coli can get (mechanically) stressed out too
  • Growing a cell wall by driven dislocations
  • 9 פרופסורים מישראל התקבלו לארגון אירופי יוקרתי בביולוגיה

  • איך יודע חיידק שהגיע הזמן?

  • Where Theoretical Physics meets Biology

Last Updated: 21 June 2025

Contact: ariel.amir@weizmann.ac.il

Last Updated: 21 June 2025

Contact: ariel.amir@weizmann.ac.il