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I present here a short summary of recent efforts to understand the collective processes underlying the division of eukaryotic cells. From the point of view of condensed matter physics mitosis is a prototype phenomenon which includes: (i) the energy transduction at the molecular level; (ii) “self-correcting” assembly; and (iii) the action of regulatory networks (giving rise to “clocks”, “checkpoints”, etc.)
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Leibler, S. (1996). Collective Phenomena in Mitosis: A Physicist’s Perspective. In: Riste, T., Sherrington, D. (eds) Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution. NATO ASI Series, vol 322. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1722-4_5
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