Physical principles of intracellular organization via active and passive phase transitions

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• Publication year

  2018

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  Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society

• Publication date

  2018-02-23

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  Biology, Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1088/1361-6633/aaa61ePMID 29313527
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