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Molecular biology

a regulatory network holding either of two stable expression states under the same conditions, with history deciding which.

In molecular biology, bistability refers to a regulatory network holding either of two stable expression states under the same conditions, with history deciding which. This meaning comes from Ozbudak (2004) in Nature.[1]

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References

Ozbudak, E. M., Thattai, M., Lim, H. N., Shraiman, B. I., & van Oudenaarden, A. (2004). Multistability in the lactose utilization network of Escherichia coli. Nature, 427(6976), 737-740. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02298

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