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NEWS / Working group asks, what’s the benefit of a brain? | Santa Fe Institute
NEWS / Working group asks, what’s the benefit of a brain? | Santa Fe Institute
The brain runs on about 15 to 20 watts, less than most light bulbs, but has still managed to evolve a voracious appetite for energy. In humans it accounts for only about one-fiftieth of weight but consumes about 20% of our daily energy. Intelligence must confer some survival advantage to sustain such a formidable energy share, but that tradeoff has not been well examined. In February, SFI hosted a working group, Evolutionary Costs of Energetic Cost of Intelligence, to begin digging more deeply into that question.
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NEWS / Measuring irreversibility in gene transcription | Santa Fe Institute
NEWS / Measuring irreversibility in gene transcription | Santa Fe Institute
Living cells are fundamentally nonequilibrium systems, meaning they constantly spend energy through seemingly one-way, irreversible processes, such as transcribing DNA into RNA, to keep life going. But how that irreversibility appears in the dynamics of individual genes has been difficult to measure. In a new paper in npj Complexity, SFI Postdoctoral Fellow James Holehouse develops analytic tools to study that question, using the canonical two-state model of gene expression to analyze thousands of mouse genes, revealing an interesting pattern.
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