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Death rate during the exponential growth of E. coli
Loic Brot, Zengru Di, Romain Morichon +4
So fast is the growth of a culture of E. coli that it led researchers to overlook a possible death rate. As a matter of fact, the experiments done in the first half of the 20th cen…
Transient frailty induced by cell division. Observation, reasons and implications
Zengru Di, Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger, Peter Richmond +2
We know that stress-factors, e.g. X-rays, have an effect on cells that is more lethal in rapid exponential growth than in stationary phase. It is this effect which makes radiothera…
A joint explanation of infant and old age mortality
Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner
Infant deaths and old age deaths are very different. The former are mostly due to severe congenital malformations of one or a small number of specific organs. On the contrary, old…