The Membrane-associated Periodic Skeleton (MPS) is a critical cytoskeletal structure observed in diverse neuronal subtypes across multiple species. Since its identification in 2013, it has been demonstrated to be essential ...

Nature has always been the underlying inspiration for various solar energy conversion technologies and among them, solar-to-chemical energy conversion in photosynthesis is considered to be the most elegant way to make ...

One of the goals of early universe cosmology is to understand the physics of inflation. Since we cannot visually access this epoch, we rely on indirect observations, e.g., measuring temperature correlations on the CMB. By ...

Understanding the behavior of time-evolving systems is central to contemporary data science, with wide-ranging applications in domains such as finance, biology and environmental studies. These systems are often high-dimensional, ...

Fluctuations play a crucial role in the operation of small-scale devices, where thermal and quantum effects significantly influence the efficiency, power output, and stability of machines. This thesis investigates performance ...

Proteins, through their activity and interactions, are the predominant class of molecules enabling the functioning of the living cell. They are linear polymers of amino acids that fold based on covalent and non-covalent ...

The cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a complex structure composed of lipids, glycolipids, polysaccharides, and proteins. Key components include peptidoglycans (PG), lipoarabinomannan (LAM), and mycolyl arabinogalactan ...

Understanding the mechanism of evolution of continents- comprising Archean Cratons flanked by younger mobile belts- through time is challenging. Cratons have a cold, thick, buoyant lithosphere, which remained stable for ...

The bacterial ATP-dependent restriction enzymes use energy derived from the hydrolysis of ATP to cleave double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), usually between two specific target sequences. Nucleolytic cleavage of the DNA by the ...

The evolutionarily conserved vacuolar protein sorting (VPS) pathway prescribes a mechanism by which newly synthesized proteins are delivered from the Golgi apparatus to the lysosomes/vacuole and back via endosomes. Originally ...