Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates

P McMillen, M Levin - Communications Biology, 2024‏ - nature.com
A defining feature of biology is the use of a multiscale architecture, ranging from molecular
networks to cells, tissues, organs, whole bodies, and swarms. Crucially however, biology is …

Bioelectric signaling: Reprogrammable circuits underlying embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer

M Levin - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
How are individual cell behaviors coordinated toward invariant large-scale anatomical
outcomes in development and regeneration despite unpredictable perturbations …

Technological approach to mind everywhere: an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds

M Levin - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

[HTML][HTML] The microbiologist's guide to membrane potential dynamics

JM Benarroch, M Asally - Trends in microbiology, 2020‏ - cell.com
All cellular membranes have the functionality of generating and maintaining the gradients of
electrical and electrochemical potentials. Such potentials were generally thought to be an …

Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals

K Kikuchi, L Galera-Laporta, C Weatherwax, JY Lam… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The dormant state of bacterial spores is generally thought to be devoid of biological activity.
We show that despite continued dormancy, spores can integrate environmental signals over …

Morphological instability and roughening of growing 3D bacterial colonies

A Martínez-Calvo, T Bhattacharjee, RK Bay… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
How do growing bacterial colonies get their shapes? While colony morphogenesis is well
studied in two dimensions, many bacteria grow as large colonies in three-dimensional (3D) …

There's plenty of room right here: Biological systems as evolved, overloaded, multi-scale machines

J Bongard, M Levin - Biomimetics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
There’s Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded,
Multi-Scale Machines Next Article in Journal Exploration of the Design of Spiderweb-Inspired …

[كتاب][B] Applications of percolation theory

M Sahimi - 1994‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide
variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include …

Synthetic microbiology in sustainability applications

EM Jones, JP Marken, PA Silver - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024‏ - nature.com
Microorganisms are a promising means to address many societal sustainability challenges
owing to their ability to thrive in diverse environments and interface with the microscale …

Electrically induced bacterial membrane-potential dynamics correspond to cellular proliferation capacity

JP Stratford, CLA Edwards, MJ Ghanshyam… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Membrane-potential dynamics mediate bacterial electrical signaling at both intra-and
intercellular levels. Membrane potential is also central to cellular proliferation. It is unclear …