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Multistability is the characteristic of a system that presents two or more mutually exclusive stable states. Bistable systems, for example, enable the implementation of logic gates, and therefore computation.
Experiments in fission yeast show that cyclin-dependent kinase is first activated in the nucleus, from which the mitotic signal is propagated from CDK at the centrosome to the cytoplasm.
