What all the noise is about: the physical basis of cellular individuality

Noise has been traditionally viewed as undesirable in biology, resulting in disorder, distortion, and disruption, and ultimately as something that needs to be filtered and removed. More recently, it has been shown that noise can also be beneficial. We briefly review historical developments pertainin...

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Published inCanadian journal of physics Vol. 90; no. 10; pp. 919 - 923
Main Authors Charlebois, Daniel A., Kærn, Mads
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa NRC Research Press 01.10.2012
Canadian Science Publishing NRC Research Press
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Biological effects
Biophysics
Molecular dynamics
Molecular physics
Noise
Canada
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ISSN0008-4204
1208-6045
DOI10.1139/p2012-091

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Summary:Noise has been traditionally viewed as undesirable in biology, resulting in disorder, distortion, and disruption, and ultimately as something that needs to be filtered and removed. More recently, it has been shown that noise can also be beneficial. We briefly review historical developments pertaining to noise in biological physics, and some of the current research in the field of molecular and cellular biophysics.
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ISSN:0008-4204
1208-6045
DOI:10.1139/p2012-091