Multiscale Physics of Muscle

Temporal encoding across a motor program for the hawkmoth’s agile flight

Animals perform a plethora of robust, agile movements in natural environments by actuating and coordinating many muscles. However, the nervous ...
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X-ray diffraction through living muscle

How does the action of millions of molecular motors enable muscle, nature’s most versatile material, to power movement? Actin (blue) ...
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How temperature makes moth muscle bifunctional.

Temperature is one of the most important variables affecting an animal’s physiology. Animal’s thermoregulate in a variety of ways from ...
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Precision phase control in flight muscles

The established perspective of flight control in insects holds that their remarkable maneuverability arises from neural modulation of relatively small ...
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An intact-limb workloop reveals how cockroach muscle changes function

In the previous project we altered the commands the cockroach's brain was sending to its muscle in real-time while the ...
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