2 papers
physics.bio-ph2016
Robustness of synthetic oscillators in growing and dividing cells
Joris Paijmans, David K Lubensky, Pieter Rein ten Wolde
Synthetic biology sets out to implement new functions in cells, and to develop a deeper understanding of biological design principles. In 2000, Elowitz and Leibler showed that by r…
cond-mat.stat-mech2016
Fundamental costs in the production and destruction of persistent polymer copies
Thomas E. Ouldridge, Pieter Rein ten Wolde
Living cells use readout molecules to record the state of receptor proteins, similar to measurements or copies in typical computational devices. But is this analogy rigorous? Can c…