Throughout our bodies, most of our organs are maintained and repaired through regulated cell division, where new cells replace old ones that are lost or damaged. Before a cell divides, it executes a ...

The fidelity of integration of pre- and postsynaptic activity by NMDA receptors (NMDARs) requires a match between agonist binding and ion channel opening. To address how agonist binding is transduced ...

In many biological situations in vivo, including tissue shaping during morphogenesis, tissue repair and cancer invasion, cells do not move as single bodies but as a collective. Two main mechanisms ...

Owing to the increasing number of industrial applications of electro-active polymers (EAPs), there is a growing need for electromechanical models which accurately capture their behaviour. To this end, ...

The ultimate goal of this project is to understand the fundamentals of triboelectrification through a first-principles investigation, both experimentally and theoretically. Although ...