Sensitivity and Memory in Physics and Biology

Living cells exhibit striking abilities—for example, their astonishing sensitivity to small perturbations, as well as their remarkable memory of transient events and stimuli. Since living things are out-of-equilibrium, the quest to understand how these abilities arise raises very basic problems in n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owen, Jeremy A.
Other Authors: Mirny, Leonid
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150705