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ArticleNature2020

Active particles induce large shape deformations in giant lipid vesicles.

Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri, Masoud Hoore, Clara Abaurrea-Velasco, Lennard van Buren, Alessandro Dutto, Thorsten Auth, Dmitry A Fedosov, Gerhard Gompper, Jan Vermant

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 214 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri *Soft Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. h.r.vutukuri@mat.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6255-2298
Masoud Hoore *Theoretical Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Clara Abaurrea-VelascoTheoretical Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Lennard van BurenSoft Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Alessandro DuttoSoft Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Thorsten AuthTheoretical Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6618-2316
Dmitry A FedosovTheoretical Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7469-9844
Gerhard GompperTheoretical Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany. g.gompper@fz-juelich.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-0986
Jan VermantSoft Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0352-0656
Forschungszentrum Jülich · DEETH Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological cells generate intricate structures by sculpting their membrane from within to actively sense and respond to external stimuli or to explore their environment

Indexed as

Artificial CellsCell MembraneLipid BilayersMicroscopy, ConfocalModels, BiologicalPhosphatidylcholinesUnilamellar Liposomes1,2-oleoylphosphatidylcholineLipid BilayersPhosphatidylcholinesUnilamellar Liposomes

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PMID32999485
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