Critical dynamics of gene networks is a mechanism behind ageing and Gompertz law

Dmitriy Podolskiy, Ivan Molodtsov, Alexander Zenin, Valeria Kogan, Leonid I. Menshikov, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Robert J. Shmookler Reis & Peter O. Fedichev Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA, Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA, Gero LLC, Moscow, Russia. Novokuznetskaya 24/2, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russian Federation, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700, Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, McClellan VA Medical Center, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, USA, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA, and Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.