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How to bridge the gap between theory and experiments in biological physics

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  1. Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Trepat

  2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona, Spain

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  3. Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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  4. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

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  5. Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

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  6. Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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  7. Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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Trepat, X., Alert, R. How to bridge the gap between theory and experiments in biological physics. Nat. Phys. 19, 1738–1739 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02276-0

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