How mortal filaments’ self-assemble and maintain order: Align or die

How mortal filaments’ self-assemble and maintain order: Align or die

A previously unknown mechanism of active matter self-organization essential for bacterial cell division follows the motto ‘dying to align’: Misaligned filaments ‘die’ spontaneously to form a ring structure at the center of the dividing cell. The study, led by the Šarić group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), was published in Nature … Read more