Signal processing articles from across Nature Portfolio

Transcriptional condensates concentrate gene regulatory proteins to control gene activation. Meyer et al. demonstrate that charge-mediated co-condensation of YAP and the oppositely charged transcriptional scaffold Med1 drives transcriptional activation.

Palme et al. investigate the fundamental principles that enable metabolic flux sensing in yeast.

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder show neural patterns different from those of neurotypical individuals. Here the authors show that this variation reflects a computational trade-off between accurate encoding and fast adaptation tuned by the neural population response.