Rhythmic behavior represents one of the most striking and ubiquitous manifestations of
functional evolution for a wide class of natural and man-made systems. The emergence of …

The goal of this review article is to assess how relevant is the concept of dissipative structure
for understanding the dynamical bases of non-equilibrium self-organization in biological …

One of the major challenges in modern biology is to understand how the molecular
components of a living cell operate in a highly noisy environment. What are the specific …

Populations of certain unicellular organisms, such as suspensions of yeast in nutrient
solutions, undergo transitions to coordinated activity with increasing cell density. The …

In the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum, periodic synthesis and release of
extracellular cyclic adenosine 3′, 5′-monophosphate (cAMP) guide cell aggregation and …

Both engineering and evolution are constrained by trade-offs between efficiency and
robustness, but theory that formalizes this fact is limited. For a simple two-state model of …

Introduction Cells that simultaneously secrete and sense the same signaling molecule are
ubiquitous. Bacteria sense a quorum by secreting and sensing an autoinducer; T cells …

There has been a resurgence of interest in non-equilibrium stochastic processes in recent
years, driven in part by the observation that the number of molecules (genes, mRNA …

This paper introduces a modern version of the classical Huygens' experiment on
synchronization of pendulum clocks. The version presented here consists of two …

Collective oscillatory behaviour is ubiquitous in nature, having a vital role in many biological
processes from embryogenesis and organ development to pace-making in neuron networks …