How do morphogen signals instruct stem cells to acquire a specific neuronal identity? A #preprint by Neal Amin, Kevin Kelley and team provides us with a roadmap. 🧫 🛣️ 🧠

Great new #preLight from Monica Tambalo which includes a response from the authors...👀

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/generating-human-neural-diversity-with-a-multiplexed-morphogen-screen-in-organoids/

#morphogens #organoids #StemCells #neuroscience

Emergent digital bio-computation through spatial diffusion & engineered bacteria
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.07.548081v1?rss=1

Our computers are composed of bacterial colonies which receive information in the form of diffusible morphogen-like signals.

A computation is encoded by the physical locations of the input morphogen & the output receiver colonies.

These computational bacterial communities will help explore information processing in biological systems.

#SyntheticBiology #biocomputation #morphogens