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Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of dividing cell populations

Naama Brenner1, Yair Shokef

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.

Physical Review Letters
|October 13, 2007
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