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Mitochondrial pearling isn’t random—it’s physics. Researchers identified two mechanisms: Internal pressure from ionic flux External pulling via motors Both cause membrane tension to exceed bending energy—a Rayleigh-Plateau instability. Full paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…