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Dr. Michael Levin: Biological Plasticity, Bioelectricity, and Limb Regeneration

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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The Connection Between Ape and Cognition

All medical needs, with the exception of infectious disease, would be solved if we knew how cells make decisions to create one body structure versus another. How is it that they know what to build in the first place? And so one way to think about this problem is to look at the activity of cells as a collective intelligence. In other words, like a many other collective intelligences, which include, for example, ants ina inaan termites in colony, it also includes us. You and i are bags of nurons that these noural cells, that have to work together towards specific goals.

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