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Archaeal cells mix single-headed and double-headed lipids to construct resilient but flexible membranes to help them survive in extreme environments.

Small hoverflies compensate for size-related flight challenges through evolutionary changes in wing shape rather than altered wingbeat kinematics.

Intrinsically disordered regions in transcription factors enhance both target binding probability and search efficiency.

Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.

Molecular chirality of actomyosin induces cell-scale chiral rotation without requiring a chiral arrangement of actomyosin filaments, revealing a key mechanism of cell chirality underlying left–right asymmetric tissue development.

Forces generated by the actin cytoskeleton are highly dependent on the structural properties of molecular motors called myosin.