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Cell commuters avoid delays

The rates of chemical reactions in a cell are limited by the time it takes the reactants to find each other through brownian motion. Thus diffusion determines the timescales of life — but can some reactions beat the diffusion limit?

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Mirny, L. Cell commuters avoid delays. Nature Phys 4, 93–95 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys848

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