In recent years experiments have demonstrated that living cells can measure low chemical
concentrations with high precision, and much progress has been made in understanding …

Biomolecular systems like molecular motors or pumps, transcription and translation
machinery, and other enzymatic reactions, can be described as Markov processes on a …

Living systems have to constantly sense their external environment and adjust their internal
state in order to survive and reproduce. Biological systems, from as complex as the brain to …

Living systems operate far from thermal equilibrium by converting the chemical potential of
ATP into mechanical work to achieve growth, replication, or locomotion. Given time series …

Living systems maintain or increase local order by working against the second law of
thermodynamics. Thermodynamic consistency is restored as they consume free energy …

Oscillations within the cell regulate the timing of many important life cycles. However, in this
noisy environment, oscillations can be highly inaccurate owing to phase fluctuations. It …

We show that a rate of conditional Shannon entropy reduction, characterizing the learning of
an internal process about an external process, is bounded by the thermodynamic entropy …

Biochemical clocks are essential for virtually all living systems. A biochemical clock that is
isolated from an external periodic signal and subjected to fluctuations can oscillate …

Living cells deploy many resources to sense their environments, including receptors,
downstream signaling molecules, time, and fuel. However, it is not known which resources …

Insects find food and mates by navigating odorant plumes that can be highly intermittent,
with intensities and durations that vary rapidly over orders of magnitude. Much is known …