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Europhysics News
Volume 51, Number 5, September-December 2020
Physics of Living Matter
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| Page(s) | 48 - 50 | |
| Section | Features: Physics of Living Matter | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2020510 | |
| Published online | 20 November 2020 | |
What is the temperature of a cell?
1
Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2
Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan
3
Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences and Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
* Corresponding: kumiko@camp.apph.tohoku.ac.jp
Equilibrium temperature is classically defined based on thermodynamics using entropy and internal energy: how then can we describe temperature in non-equilibrium living systems such as cells, whose states are not well described by existing thermodynamics?
© European Physical Society, EDP Sciences, 2020
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