Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6912, 2002, Pages 231-237

  Rao, Christopher V ^a   Wolf, Denise M ^a   Arkin, Adam P ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; DNA;

INTRACELLULAR NOISE;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIOLOGY; DNA; NOISE;

BIOLOGY; CELL FATE; CELL KINETICS; DNA REPLICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0037078982     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01258     Document Type: Review

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