Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique

Folding oneself into shape: a buckling of epithelial tissue. Morphogenesis is the genetically-controlled process through which organisms acquire a shape. Here we show that in the Drosophila embryo, the formation of the v...

The discovery of intrinsically unfolded or disordered proteins (IDPs) about 20 years ago led to a paradigm shift from the initial picture that it is primarily the structure of proteins that determines their function. Ins...

The dynamics of the chromosomal DNA of bacteria is arguably simpler than that of eukaryotic cells. Indeed, it is not separated from the rest of the cytoplasm by the nuclear envelope, and its compaction requires fewer lev...