News

Rainer Klages, Reader in Applied Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems, recently published two news articles on exciting insights into the physical behavior of biological systems. The first article is a Viewpoint in the Physics Magazine of the American Physical Society and presents a result by Sorkin et al. that aims at generalizing the second law of thermodynamics to living systems. The second article is a New and Notable in the Biophysical Journal published by the CellPress group. It discusses a data-driven approach to analyzing experimental cell migration data, which was developed by Klimek et al.

These news pieces are invited contributions that publicize and explain significant scientific advances to a broader audience, including the general physics and biology communities as well as interested laypeople.

To the news articles:

• R. Klages, Toward a second law for living systems, Physics 17, 182 (2024)
• R. Klages, Cell migration: Beyond Brownian motion, Biophysical Journal 123, P1167 (2024)