{
  "id": 19656820,
  "title": "Self-organized criticality in a mammalian RNA-interference circuit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/self-organized-criticality-in-a-mammalian-rna-interference-circuit",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.09.765295v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Living systems have been argued to operate near critical points, but their relevance at the cellular level is poorly understood. Critical states allow for a high sensitivity to external inputs and maximal information transfer and display fluctuations at all scales. Critical points are very special, and require the fine tuning of a control parameter, which is hard to reconcile with the robustness…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}