Adam Levin's new novel introduces "a mass-produced commodity of weaponized cuteness, a kind of unholy hybrid of Tamagotchi and Turing machine" nyti.ms/3bxXMSb

cnn.com/2020/01/13/us/… if you’ve been waiting for self-healing robots (“xenobots”) made from stem cells today is your day.

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Cognition all the way down | Fantastic Read !!! 🔥🔥🔥 #Hamm400aos aeon.co/essays/how-to-…

No sleeping in! Only breakfast!

It’s a little windy today

New review on long-range signaling by Patrick McMillen, Madeleine Oudin, and Samantha Payne, PhD frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New preprint with Douglas Blackiston Sam Kriegman Josh Bongard : arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880 Four perspectives on the conceptual issues around #Xenobots, addressing definitions and implications for robotics, developmental biology, evolution, biomedicine, and more.

Our latest #xenobot manuscript: the team's views on implications. Team: Michael Levin, Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman. arxiv.org/abs/2207.00880

New preprint with Patrick McMillen: "Information Theory as an Experimental Tool for Integrating Disparate Biophysical Signaling Modules" preprints.org/manuscript/202…

New preprint, primary data - really excited about it: osf.io/ps987/ by PhD student Angela Tung, former undergraduate Ananya Pavuluri, Megan Sperry Patrick McMillen Wesley P Clawson Vaibhav Pai Franz Kuchling + S. Bulatao, M. Yue, R. Martinez Flores. I present to you, CEMA:

New paper: Sofia Masuelli Patrick McMillen Madeleine Oudin Sebastian Real, Maria Roque #bioelectricity, #cancer, and #leftrightasymmetry: mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/1… "The Yin and Yang of Breast Cancer: Ion Channels as Determinants of Left–Right Functional Differences"

New preprint, at interface of bioelectricity & AI: osf.io/269e5/ Thomas O'Brien Joel Stremmel Léo PioLopez Patrick McMillen cody rasmussen-ivey

New paper is out - Patrick McMillen nature.com/articles/s4200… "Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates"