Living systems are constantly being driven out of equilibrium by consuming energy. Studying fluctuations can tell us how they do so while maintaining order — and what this teaches us about non-equilibrium processes in general.
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Smith, AS. Alive and twitching. Nature Phys 12, 378–379 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3703
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