Criticality articles within Nature Communications

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• Article
  20 July 2021 | Open Access

  Engineering self-organized criticality in living cells

  Biological systems are known to behave in optimal ways when poised close to critical points, right on the edge between order and disorder. Here the authors show how this state can be engineered in living cells.

  • Blai Vidiella
  • , Antoni Guillamon
  •  & Ricard Solé

• Article
  25 May 2021 | Open Access

  Longitudinal analysis of blood markers reveals progressive loss of resilience and predicts human lifespan limit

  Aging is associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases and functional decline. Here, the authors investigate the fluctuations of physiological indices along aging trajectories and observed a characteristic decrease in the organism state recovery rate.

  • Timothy V. Pyrkov
  • , Konstantin Avchaciov
  •  & Peter O. Fedichev

• Article
  04 May 2017 | Open Access

  Subsampling scaling

  We can often observe only a small fraction of a system, which leads to biases in the inference of its global properties. Here, the authors develop a framework that enables overcoming subsampling effects, apply it to recordings from developing neural networks, and find that neural networks become critical as they mature.

  • A. Levina
  •  & V. Priesemann