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Author(s): Thierry Mora and Ned S. Wingreen

Berg and Purcell [Biophys. J. 20, 193 (1977)] calculated how the accuracy of concentration sensing by single-celled organisms is limited by noise from the small number of counted molecules. Here we generalize their results to the sensing of concentration ramps, which is often the biologically releva...

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248101] Published Mon Jun 14, 2010