SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 17 [Category: Political] -- Santa Fe Institute posted the following news release: * * * Measuring irreversibility in gene transcription * Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly spend energy through seemingly one-way, irreversible processes, such as transcribing DNA into RNA, to keep life going. But how that irreversibility appears in the dynamics of individual genes has been difficult to measure. In a new paper in npj Com more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 17 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * UNM-led study finds that when it comes to networks, nature has an edge * Networks exist in both nature -such as biological systems like food webs and gene regulatory networks -and in engineered systems as seen in power grids. Though natural and engineered systems share an overarching goal -providing a mechanism for interacting components to transmit information -one system appears have a clear  more PR