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Why do cells of the same type, grown in the same conditions, look and behave so differently? Studying fluctuations in a well-characterized genetic pathway in yeast hints at how such variation arises.

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Figure 1: Noise decomposition in the model of cell behaviour devised by Colman-Lerner and colleagues1.

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Eldar, A., Elowitz, M. Deviations in mating. Nature 437, 631–632 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437631a

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