Nonequilibrium Activity and Dissipation in Cells

Nonequilibrium fluctuations in the cytoplasm of living cells provides insight on the underlying physical processes

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Colin, Alexandra, Gaëlle Letort, Nitzan Razin, Maria Almonacid, Wylie Ahmed, Timo Betz, Marie-Emilie Terret et al. “Active diffusion in oocytes nonspecifically centers large objects during prophase I and meiosis I.” The Journal of Cell Biology 219, no. 3 (2020). (DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201908195) [link]

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