Cell shapes and explanation of the shape index S.Sarah PapiorekRobert R. JunkerKlaus Lunau
Thirteen cases of plasma cell leukemia and 13 cases of nonleukemia plasma cell myeloma were compared with respect to the sizes and shapes of tumor cells in marrow smears. It was demonstrated that the leukemia cells were elongated or ovoid and significantly smaller in size, whereas the myeloma ce...
In a confluent, single-cell tissue layer, we show that cell shapes and statistics correlate directly with the tissue's mechanical properties, described by an energy functional with generic interfacial terms only. Upon increasing the cohesive component of the model, we observe a clear transition from...
Using a novel approach, we compute the generating functions of lv1k- and lv5k-shapes as well as the generating functions of all lv1k- and lv5k-shapes induced by all k-noncrossing, σ-canonical RNA structures for fixed n. By means of singularity analysis of the generating functions, we ...
The energies of crystalline domains of different shapes on a spherical surface are calculated using continuum elasticity theory and simulations. Additivity of the stretching energy and the line energy is assumed, and a phase diagram is constructed considering discs/caps, rings, and ribbons of the def...
The genome inside organisms from all domains of life is very long compared with the size of the cell or compartment to which it is confined. Hence, genomic DNA needs to be tightly compacted to fit. To facilitate compaction cells utilize generic physical mechanisms such as molecular crowding and...
It is worrisome that several pollutants can enhance the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment, including agricultural fungicides. As an important bioindicator for environmental risk assessment, earthworm is still a neglected focus that the effects of the fungicide carbendazim ...
Cortical thinning is an important hallmark of the maturation of brain morphology during childhood and adolescence. However, the connectome-based wiring mechanism that underlies cortical maturation remains unclear. Here, we show cortical thinning patterns
Conventional tools for measuring the shape of the cornea perform poorly when applied to abnormal eyes. The image processing regularly fails, and the shape reconstruction often produces inaccurate results. This article describes a single measurement instrument that could integrate real-time solutions to bo...
Despite the knowledge that the soil–plant–microbiome nexus is shaped by interactions amongst its members, very little is known about how individual symbioses regulate this shaping. Even less is known about how the agriculturally important symbiosis of