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The mechanism of cell division

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The recently developed approximation method for treating problems of cell biophysics is generalized and corrected in some points. The equations of elongation of a dividing cell of any shape are given for the most general case of finite permeability as well as of finite internal and external diffusion coefficients.

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    N. Rashevsky

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Rashevsky, N. The mechanism of cell division. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 1, 23–30 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478010

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