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Bioelectric Computation (Ep 39 Re-release)

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Xenobats - The Plasticity of Cells

ben clabr with paul davies, and i want to talk about your yet another mind blowing paper thato published recently. So you used stem cells from xenopus frogs, and you put them together in ways that were specified by a sort of computational agarithm That you design to find structures that would be the most functional nin the environments in which they were operating. And then you built these things, and they worked, right? Well, tell me how wrong i am about about that description of sennapasu. Sureye, not too wrong. You know, the big picture, of course, was was twofold, we really wanted to understand plasticity of

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