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Michael Levin says
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“Darwin wrote about cognition and plants and other [organisms] because he understood for his theory to make any sense, everything has to be gradual,”
forbes Thursday, May 5, 2022 10:08:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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“I'm not claiming that I'm some kind of unique prophet who understands what science is getting wrong. There are so many people that get it right,” “There’s a whole community of [scientists] who work on cognition, who work on neuroscience beyond neurons”
forbes Thursday, May 5, 2022 10:08:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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“Many of the things I work on are controversial in certain fields,”
forbes Thursday, May 5, 2022 10:08:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin stated
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"Organisms such as X. laevis , whose limited regenerative capacities in adulthood mirror some of the key limitations of humans, are important models with which to test interventions and discover triggers that could restore both form and function"
finanznachrichten-en Monday, January 31, 2022 9:01:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin stated
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“Organisms such as X. laevis , whose limited regenerative capacities in adulthood mirror some of the key limitations of humans, are important models with which to test interventions and discover triggers that could restore both form and function”
4-traders Monday, January 31, 2022 8:34:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin stated
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"Organisms such as X. laevis, whose limited regenerative capacities in adulthood mirror some of the key limitations of humans, are important models with which to test interventions and discover triggers that could restore both form and function"
afp-en Monday, January 31, 2022 8:00:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
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“None of us can say what it feels like to be a frog [with a regrown limb], but from what we can measure, there were no differences compared to a non-injured limb,”
newscientist Saturday, January 29, 2022 12:50:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin stated
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"Organisms such as X. laevis , whose limited regenerative capacities in adulthood mirror some of the key limitations of humans, are important models with which to test interventions and discover triggers that could restore both form and function"
news-yahoo Thursday, January 27, 2022 10:13:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin explicou
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"Os animais adultos ainda têm a informação [genética] necessária para criar as estruturas de seus corpos"
bonde Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:57:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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“None of us can say what it feels like to be a frog [with a regrown limb], but from what we can measure, there were no differences compared to a non-injured limb,”
trendnews-az Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:23:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“This makes me very happy because if this is our first guess and it’s this good, imagine what the optimized version is going to look like in the future,”
nbcnews Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:22:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“we should be able to build whatever we want them to build,”
nbcnews Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:22:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“Covering the open wound with a liquid environment under the [silicone cap], with the right drug cocktail, could provide the necessary first signals to set the regenerative process in motion,”
guardian Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:06:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“They face some of the same limitations as humans do,”
nytimes Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:47:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“to convince every cell in there that, ‘OK, we’re on the leg-growing program,’”
nytimes Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:47:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“It’s just the first of many,”
nytimes Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:47:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"I know [TJ Maxx is] moving for three reasons: because they’ll have a brand new built-out store … they like the end-cap visibility . And they’re going to have a better loading dock,"
newsday-USA Thursday, January 20, 2022 1:37:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"I know [TJ Maxx is] moving for three reasons: because they’ll have a brand new built-out store … they like the end-cap visibility . And they’re going to have a better loading dock,"
newsday-USA Wednesday, January 19, 2022 8:21:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin dijo
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“Enero es tradicionalmente cuando los estadounidenses dicen ‘voy a perder peso y voy a hacer más ejercicio’”
orlandosentinel Friday, January 7, 2022 12:18:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"January is traditionally when Americans say 'I'm going to lose weight and I'm going to exercise more,' "
eagletribune Thursday, January 6, 2022 11:06:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"They would be sitting on the outside of a tadpole, keeping out pathogens and redistributing mucus,"
spacedaily Friday, December 3, 2021 11:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that's regenerative medicine-that's the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging," "All of these different problems are here because we don't know how to predict and control what groups of cells are going to build. Xenobots are a new platform for teaching us"
spacedaily Friday, December 3, 2021 11:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"We have the full, unaltered frog genome,"
spacedaily Friday, December 3, 2021 11:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin tells
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"The distinction between a robot and an organism is not nearly as sharp as ... we used to think it was,"
npr Wednesday, December 1, 2021 7:54:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that’s regenerative medicine—that’s the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging,”
theepochtimes Wednesday, December 1, 2021 5:45:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that’s regenerative medicine — that’s the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging,” “All of these different problems are here because we don’t know how to predict and control what groups of cells are going to build. Xenobots are a new platform for teaching us”
nypost Tuesday, November 30, 2021 5:29:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“Some people have said in the past that xenobots are not organisms because they don’t replicate. Well, now they replicate,”
independent-UK Tuesday, November 30, 2021 3:31:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that’s regenerative medicine—that’s the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging,”
Hindu Tuesday, November 30, 2021 3:27:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"They would be sitting on the outside of a tadpole, keeping out pathogens and redistributing mucus,"
sciencedaily Tuesday, November 30, 2021 3:38:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that's regenerative medicine -- that's the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging," "All of these different problems are here because we don't know how to predict and control what groups of cells are going to build. Xenobots are a new platform for teaching us"
sciencedaily Tuesday, November 30, 2021 3:38:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"We have the full, unaltered frog genome,"
sciencedaily Tuesday, November 30, 2021 3:38:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"A1 dysfunction in nerve cells causes nerve cell death and damage, also known as 'neurodegeneration' in MS patients,"
medicalxpress Monday, November 1, 2021 2:08:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Our goal is to prevent neurodegeneration, and in doing so, improve the lives of persons living with MS,"
medicalxpress Monday, November 1, 2021 2:08:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"We are hopeful that this will lead to the discovery of medications that can be used in humans, which will inhibit neurodegeneration and improve the lives of persons living with MS,"
medicalxpress Monday, November 1, 2021 2:08:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Our finding, that treatments with immunoglobulin, steroids or a combination of both agents all result in more rapid resolution of inflammation will be of great value to pediatricians worldwide in their treatment of children with this new disorder,"
outlookindia Sunday, June 20, 2021 4:32:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Our finding, that treatments with immunoglobulin, steroids or a combination of both agents all result in more rapid resolution of inflammation will be of great value to paediatricians worldwide in their treatment of children with this new disorder,"
timesofindia Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:20:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“and the cells on one side row to the left and those on the other side row to the right, and this thing takes off. It starts zooming around,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“They’ll sometimes go straight, sometimes in circles,” “If there’s a particle in the water, they’ll circle it. They will do mazes—they can take corners without bumping into anything”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“there’s a network of calcium signaling,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“a chemical signal that goes through the water saying that someone just got attacked,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“What the genome provides for the cells is some mechanism that allows them to undertake goal-directed activities,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“What you have is organs and tissues that have very specific large-scale goals, and if you try to deviate them off of that, they will come back,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“Once they’ve developed this new body, they have some ability to maintain it,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“I had doubts about this story,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“During metamorphosis, the organs take unusual paths that they don’t normally take, until they settle in the right place for a normal frog face,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“There’s some way the system is storing a large-scale map of what it’s supposed to build,”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“It’s entirely not obvious how you get changes to 3D anatomy by manipulating that lowest genetic level,” “We need to learn how cells themselves encode whatever pattern they’re supposed to build, and then to rewrite that target morphology and let the cells do their thing”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin asked
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“First, where does the information for the anatomy it’s trying to regenerate come from?” “It’s easy to say ‘genome,’ but we now know from our xenobots that there is extreme plasticity, and cells are actually willing and able to build very different bodies”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“I think this is bigger than even biology,” “We need a science of where larger-scale goals come from. We’re going to be surrounded by the internet of things, by swarm robotics, and even by corporations and companies. We don’t know where their goals come from, we’re not good at predicting them and we’re certainly not good at programming them”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“have natural boundaries that demarcate them from the rest of the world and allow them to have coherent functional behaviors,” “That’s at the core of what it means to be an organism”
wired Monday, April 5, 2021 6:46:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
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“The fundamental finding here is that when you liberate skin cells from their normal context, and you give them a chance to reimagine their multicellularity, they can build other things than what they normally build,” “To me, one of the most exciting things here is plasticity. This idea that even normal cells, not genetically modified, with a normal frog genome, are in fact capable of building something completely different”
newscientist Thursday, April 1, 2021 11:41:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"We are witnessing the remarkable plasticity of cellular collectives, which build a rudimentary new 'body' that is quite distinct from their default -- in this case, a frog -- despite having a completely normal genome,"
sciencedaily Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:07:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"The biological materials we are using have many features we would like to someday implement in the bots -- cells can act like sensors, motors for movement, communication and computation networks, and recording devices to store information," "One thing the Xenobots and future versions of biological bots can do that their metal and plastic counterparts have difficulty doing is constructing their own body plan as the cells grow and mature, and then repairing and restoring themselves if they become damaged. Healing is a natural feature of living organisms, and it is preserved in Xenobot biology"
sciencedaily Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:07:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“We are witnessing the remarkable plasticity of cellular collectives, which build a rudimentary new ‘body’ that is quite distinct from their default - in this case, a frog - despite having a completely normal genome,”
msn-uk Wednesday, March 31, 2021 11:11:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Having the environment where we can come together and really celebrate the success of our democracy working in action through its election procedures, especially in the midst of the pandemic right now, it’s all really encouraging for what is in the future,"
news-yahoo Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:51:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Possibly we’ll all see each other back here tomorrow night!"
news-yahoo Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:51:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Having the environment where we can come together and really celebrate the success of our democracy working in action through its election procedures, especially in the midst of the pandemic right now, it’s all really encouraging for what is in the future,"
usaToday Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:15:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Possibly we’ll all see each other back here tomorrow night!"
usaToday Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:15:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“This study could go in two very different directions,”
arabnews Monday, October 5, 2020 12:10:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“After the pandemic began, we started seeing severely ill children with intense inflammation and multi-organ failure,” “We were puzzled because their illness was occurring not at the height of their infection, but several weeks after, when the virus had gone but antibodies were high. We feared those antibodies might actually be causing the damage”
arabnews Monday, October 5, 2020 12:10:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“We need to understand whether antibodies which children develop against common cold coronaviruses and COVID-19 protect against severe disease, or alternatively whether some children and adults make antibodies that might make the disease worse,” “Hopefully our study will give us answers and provide essential information we need to develop safe vaccines”
arabnews Monday, October 5, 2020 12:10:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“This study could go in two very different directions,”
arabnews Monday, October 5, 2020 12:10:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“After the pandemic began, we started seeing severely ill children with intense inflammation and multi-organ failure,” “We were puzzled because their illness was occurring not at the height of their infection, but several weeks after, when the virus had gone but antibodies were high. We feared those antibodies might actually be causing the damage”
arabnews Monday, October 5, 2020 12:10:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“We need to understand whether antibodies which children develop against common cold coronaviruses and COVID-19 protect against severe disease, or alternatively whether some children and adults make antibodies that might make the disease worse,” “Hopefully our study will give us answers and provide essential information we need to develop safe vaccines”
arabnews Monday, October 5, 2020 12:10:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“This study could go in two very different directions,”
guardian Sunday, October 4, 2020 9:34:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“After the pandemic began we started seeing severely ill, infected children with intense inflammation and multi-organ failure,” “We were puzzled because their illness was occurring not at the height of their infection but several weeks afterwards – when the virus had gone but antibodies were high. We feared those antibodies might actually be causing the damage”
guardian Sunday, October 4, 2020 9:34:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“This study could go in two very different directions,”
observer Sunday, October 4, 2020 9:33:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“After the pandemic began we started seeing severely ill, infected children with intense inflammation and multi-organ failure,” “We were puzzled because their illness was occurring not at the height of their infection but several weeks afterwards – when the virus had gone but antibodies were high. We feared those antibodies might actually be causing the damage”
observer Sunday, October 4, 2020 9:33:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"In just one of its potential applications, the BrainGate donation may lead to a deeper understanding of the very nature of human memory,"
prnewswire Thursday, September 10, 2020 6:25:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"This was a way to raise money for the state coffers,"
ohio Wednesday, July 15, 2020 8:34:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"When the state owned the stores, those people who worked at the stores were state employees," "They get state pensions, and all the benefits of being a state employee"
ohio Wednesday, July 15, 2020 8:34:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"There’s not one national market for the sale of alcohol; there are 50,"
ohio Friday, July 10, 2020 11:33:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin wrote
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"There is a concern that children meeting current diagnostic criteria for MIS-C are the 'tip of the iceberg' and a bigger problem may be lurking below the waterline,"
AsiaOne Wednesday, July 1, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin wrote
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“There is a concern that children meeting current diagnostic criteria for MIS-C are the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and a bigger problem may be lurking below the waterline,”
expressindia Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:25:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin wrote
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"There is a concern that children meeting current diagnostic criteria for MIS-C are the 'tip of the iceberg' and a bigger problem may be lurking below the waterline,"
news-yahoo Tuesday, June 30, 2020 5:11:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin wrote
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"There is a concern that children meeting current diagnostic criteria for MIS-C are the 'tip of the iceberg' and a bigger problem may be lurking below the waterline,"
JakartaPost Tuesday, June 30, 2020 4:39:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin wrote
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"There is a concern that children meeting current diagnostic criteria for MIS-C are the 'tip of the iceberg' and a bigger problem may be lurking below the waterline,"
wsau Tuesday, June 30, 2020 2:53:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"adds to the growing appreciation of cells' responses to bioelectric aspects of their environment,"
phys Wednesday, June 24, 2020 9:25:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"adds to the growing appreciation of cells' responses to bioelectric aspects of their environment,"
eurekalert Wednesday, June 24, 2020 8:53:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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“I think the cause of Kawasaki has been sitting in the bin because we don’t know how to identify it,”
time Wednesday, May 27, 2020 7:52:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"What was remarkable about the experiments in this study is that when we increased expression of HCN2 at a distance from the brain, in non-neural regions, the defects in the brain were still repaired or prevented,"
eurekalert Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:43:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"What was remarkable about the experiments in this study is that when we increased expression of HCN2 at a distance from the brain, in non-neural regions, the defects in the brain were still repaired or prevented,"
medicalxpress Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:40:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"We think of it as an iceberg: we first noticed the tip of the iceberg, then we saw the Kawasaki group, and now we're seeing less severely ill children with persistent fever ... from the timing of it, it looks like something that follows six weeks from the curve of COVID-19,"
aljazeera-en Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:52:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"We should know in a couple of weeks how wide the spectrum is. We've literally been hearing about cases every day, but we're not gathering systematic data. It's all word of mouth from Zoom conferences and webinars,"
aljazeera-en Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:52:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
ctvnews Wednesday, May 20, 2020 6:53:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
wxii12 Wednesday, May 20, 2020 6:08:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
wmur Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:57:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
wesh Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:49:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
wyff4 Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:48:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
kcci Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:30:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
wcvb Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:20:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
Koat Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:20:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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"There is a concern that we are seeing a dysregulated immune response,"
wlwt Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:08:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
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“This is a rapidly changing situation and we desperately need to learn how to manage it because we are now seeing quite significant numbers of children being admitted to district hospitals all over the place,”
foxnews Tuesday, May 19, 2020 5:29:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin afirmou
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“Sabemos que estes marcadores estão presentes em pacientes muito doentes e que estão presentes em níveis mais baixos em alguns doentes com a doença conhecida de Kawasaki”
observador Monday, May 18, 2020 7:01:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“We think they can help us decide which children are at risk of progressing to cardiac failure,”
thedailybeast Sunday, May 17, 2020 11:23:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“We know that these markers are present in the very sick patients and at lower levels in some patients with normal Kawasaki disease,”
news-yahoo-in Sunday, May 17, 2020 8:27:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“This is a rapidly changing situation and we desperately need to learn how to manage it because we are now seeing quite significant numbers of children being admitted to district hospitals all over the place,” “What we don’t know when we’re seeing a child for the first time, or hearing about them if they’re at another hospital, is which children are going to get better on their own and which are going to progress to having Kawasaki disease and are therefore at risk of getting coronary artery aneurysms, and who are the small number who will progress to multi-organ failure”
news-yahoo-in Sunday, May 17, 2020 8:27:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“It’s not as good as a randomised trial, but it’s the next best thing in a pandemic. Because the numbers will be so big, it might give us a signal as to which treatments are best,”
news-yahoo-in Sunday, May 17, 2020 8:27:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Understanding the transmission, storage and encoding of biological information is a critical goal, not only for basic science but also for transformative advances in regenerative medicine," "In these two papers, Antony Jose masterfully applies a computer science approach to provide an overview and a quantitative analysis of possible molecular dynamics that could serve as a medium for heritable information"
sciencedaily Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:51:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Antony Jose's generalization of memory and encoding via the entity-sensor-property framework sheds novel insights into evolution and biological complexity and suggests important revisions to existing paradigms in genetics, epigenetics and development,"
sciencedaily Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:51:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Understanding the transmission, storage and encoding of biological information is a critical goal, not only for basic science but also for transformative advances in regenerative medicine," "In these two papers, Antony Jose masterfully applies a computer science approach to provide an overview and a quantitative analysis of possible molecular dynamics that could serve as a medium for heritable information"
phys Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Antony Jose's generalization of memory and encoding via the entity-sensor-property framework sheds novel insights into evolution and biological complexity and suggests important revisions to existing paradigms in genetics, epigenetics and development,"
phys Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Understanding the transmission, storage and encoding of biological information is a critical goal, not only for basic science but also for transformative advances in regenerative medicine," "In these two papers, Antony Jose masterfully applies a computer science approach to provide an overview and a quantitative analysis of possible molecular dynamics that could serve as a medium for heritable information"
eurekalert Wednesday, April 22, 2020 7:06:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"Antony Jose's generalization of memory and encoding via the entity-sensor-property framework sheds novel insights into evolution and biological complexity and suggests important revisions to existing paradigms in genetics, epigenetics and development,"
eurekalert Wednesday, April 22, 2020 7:06:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“People will ask: Is it a robot, is it a machine, is it an animal?” “What this is really telling us is that we need to have better definitions of all these things”
denverpost Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:46:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin wrote
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“Perhaps AR should publicly call for the destruction of the black race,”
amren Thursday, February 27, 2020 2:28:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"We found that macrophages -innate immune system cells that can swallow up bacteria and destroy them to reduce the burden of an infection do not migrate appropriately without the presence of the brain"
eurekalert Tuesday, February 4, 2020 2:30:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"We found that macrophages -innate immune system cells that can swallow up bacteria and destroy them to reduce the burden of an infection do not migrate appropriately without the presence of the brain"
medicalxpress Tuesday, February 4, 2020 2:11:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“We can imagine many useful applications of these living robots that other machines can’t do,”
dailytimesPK Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:03:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules,”
scientificamerican Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:38:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"You look at the cells we've been building our xenobots with, and, genomically, they're frogs,"
newshub Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"These frog cells can be coaxed to make interesting living forms that are completely different from what their default anatomy would be,"
newshub Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin dijo
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“Nunca han existido en la Tierra”
pysnnoticias Tuesday, January 14, 2020 9:32:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"This study is a direct contribution to getting a handle on what people are afraid of,"
wtsp Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,”
taipeitimes Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:05:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“These are very small, but ultimately the plan is to make them to scale,”
taipeitimes Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:05:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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"If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules. "
thesun Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:16:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"The big question in biology is to understand the algorithms that determine form and function," "The genome encodes proteins, but transformative applications await our discovery of how that hardware enables cells to cooperate toward making functional anatomies under very different conditions"
labmanager Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:00:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"I think it's an absolute necessity for society going forward to get a better handle on systems where the outcome is very complex,"
labmanager Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:00:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"As we've shown, these frog cells can be coaxed to make interesting living forms that are completely different from what their default anatomy would be,"
labmanager Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:00:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules,"
labmanager Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:00:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,”
dailystar Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
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“If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules,”
dailystar Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
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"The big question in biology is to understand the algorithms that determine form and function," "The genome encodes proteins, but transformative applications await our discovery of how that hardware enables cells to cooperate toward making functional anatomies under very different conditions"
farsnews-en Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:24:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin asks
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"What actually determines the anatomy towards which cells cooperate?"
farsnews-en Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:24:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"As we've shown, these frog cells can be coaxed to make interesting living forms that are completely different from what their default anatomy would be,"
farsnews-en Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:24:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules,"
farsnews-en Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:24:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"this study is a direct contribution to getting a handle on what people are afraid of, which is unintended consequences,"
farsnews-en Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:24:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"I think it's an absolute necessity for society going forward to get a better handle on systems where the outcome is very complex,"
farsnews-en Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:24:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin added
:
"Then you ask, well, what else are these cells capable of building? "
heart Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:10:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,”
iran-daily Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“These are very small, but ultimately the plan is to make them to scale,”
iran-daily Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“The aim is to understand the software of life,” “If you think about birth defects, cancer, age-related diseases, all of these things could be solved if we knew how to make biological structures, to have ultimate control over growth and form”
iran-daily Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“I think it’s an absolute necessity for society going forward to get a better handle on systems where the outcome is very complex,”
siliconrepublic Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:15:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin added
:
"Then you ask, well, what else are these cells capable of building? "
skynews Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:26:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,”
msn-uk Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:19:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“These are very small, but ultimately the plan is to make them to scale,”
msn-uk Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:19:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“The aim is to understand the software of life,” “If you think about birth defects, cancer, age-related diseases, all of these things could be solved if we knew how to make biological structures, to have ultimate control over growth and form”
msn-uk Tuesday, January 14, 2020 6:19:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"We can imagine many useful applications of these living robots that other machines can't do,"
ecns Tuesday, January 14, 2020 5:14:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"The big question in biology is to understand the algorithms that determine form and function," "The genome encodes proteins, but transformative applications await our discovery of how that hardware enables cells to cooperate toward making functional anatomies under very different conditions"
eurekalert Monday, January 13, 2020 11:58:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"I think it's an absolute necessity for society going forward to get a better handle on systems where the outcome is very complex,"
eurekalert Monday, January 13, 2020 11:58:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin asks
:
"What actually determines the anatomy towards which cells cooperate?"
eurekalert Monday, January 13, 2020 11:58:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"As we've shown, these frog cells can be coaxed to make interesting living forms that are completely different from what their default anatomy would be,"
eurekalert Monday, January 13, 2020 11:58:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules,"
eurekalert Monday, January 13, 2020 11:58:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
“We are interested in feeding that information back to engineering and AI,”
wired Monday, January 13, 2020 11:14:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
“So it's this kind of back and forth cycle between the design and the biology that helps understand the rules of what the biology is doing,”
wired Monday, January 13, 2020 11:14:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
“They change their movement from time to time, so they will move in a particular way, then they'll change it, then they'll turn around and go back,”
wired Monday, January 13, 2020 11:14:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
“And most importantly, how we can control it,”
wired Monday, January 13, 2020 11:14:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"If humanity is going to survive into the future, we need to better understand how complex properties, somehow, emerge from simple rules,"
independent-UK Monday, January 13, 2020 11:02:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"While we can't change your height, we may be able to modify other risk factors for a-fib in taller individuals and be more aggressive about controlling blood pressure or diabetes or cholesterol,"
upi Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:42:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"We were able to adjust for that, and it doesn't seem to be related to heart size,"
upi Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:42:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin added
:
“While current guidelines advise against widespread screening for AFib, our findings show that a certain group of patients -- specifically, very tall patients -- may benefit from screening,”
HindustanTimes Monday, November 18, 2019 11:28:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin added
:
"While current guidelines advise against widespread screening for AFib, our findings show that a certain group of patients -- specifically, very tall patients -- may benefit from screening,"
business-standard Friday, November 15, 2019 4:46:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"We are just beginning to understand how the 'software' of embryonic development (the electrical patterns) are created and interpreted by the 'hardware' (the cells' genes and proteins) to enable the cells to cooperate and organize into a highly-patterned body,"
sciencedaily Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:47:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"We are just beginning to understand how the 'software' of embryonic development (the electrical patterns) are created and interpreted by the 'hardware' (the cells' genes and proteins) to enable the cells to cooperate and organize into a highly-patterned body,"
eurekalert Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:52:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"Adapting this market to the other 80% of the world is not a very straightforward proposition,"
marianasvariety-guam Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:32:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“Adapting this market to the other 80 per cent of the world is not a very straightforward proposition,”
TorontoStar Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:26:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“Adapting this market to the other 80 percent of the world is not a very straightforward proposition,”
WashingtonPost Tuesday, August 27, 2019 3:31:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin explains
:
"Our training method blends security best practices and customer-specific security policies with behavioral psychology, compelling storytelling, and rich interactive media,"
finanznachrichten-en Wednesday, July 24, 2019 8:26:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“Yes, we are definitely seeing [an] increase, especially ransomware, so in looking on the internet, I have seen statistics last year, that it has been about U$S8 billion [that] was paid in ransom ware last year, and this year it will probably be double in 2019. We are seeing a lot more cities paying this money. In the US, many cities have insurance and many private-sector organisations have insurance and insurance, companies are paying the money, and then, obviously rates are gonna go up for everybody,”
jamaica-gleaner Monday, July 15, 2019 9:04:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“We ask about expenditures. What did you buy last year? In the last 12 months? And things like education and if you bought or sold a car…those kinds of things. Anything that involves money transactions which are things you buy or…even things like gallon containers of water. How much did you buy over the last year?”
pnc Monday, July 1, 2019 1:10:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
“You have a situation where now every ransomware hacker in the world potentially maybe trying to go back to them and re-infect their system with the idea they already paid once they'll pay again,”
wptv Tuesday, June 25, 2019 5:03:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
“You get somebody that gets very fixated on a person and they’re just so consumed by knowing everything they can about that person and they’re going to use all methods,”
wptv Saturday, May 18, 2019 3:08:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“The model did remarkably well in predicting the actual biological outcomes in the worm,”
drugtargetreview Wednesday, May 1, 2019 2:08:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"The model did remarkably well in predicting the actual biological outcomes in the worm,"
sciencedaily Friday, April 26, 2019 4:45:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“Non-Prime customers have little incentive to shop more — when they do, they just become Prime members,”
nytimes Friday, April 26, 2019 4:51:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"The model did remarkably well in predicting the actual biological outcomes in the worm,"
phys Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:06:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"The model did remarkably well in predicting the actual biological outcomes in the worm,"
eurekalert Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:54:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"You can literally see the electrical activity in the tissue,"
phys Wednesday, March 6, 2019 4:46:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin concludes
:
"With perhaps the exception of infectious disease, the majority of problems in health and biomedicine hinge on understanding how cells get together to build a specific organ or other structure," "If we can figure out how to manipulate these processes, we can start to develop ways to correct birth defects and address everything from traumatic injury to degenerative diseases, aging, and cancer"
phys Wednesday, March 6, 2019 4:46:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"You can literally see the electrical activity in the tissue," "Within a few hours of when this activity is seen, we can start to measure changes in gene expression"
eurekalert Tuesday, March 5, 2019 8:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"Most of the people working on this problem study genetic and biochemical signals like transcription factors or growth factors," "We've decided to focus on electrical signals, which are a very important part of cell-to-cell communication"
eurekalert Tuesday, March 5, 2019 8:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin concludes
:
"With perhaps the exception of infectious disease, the majority of problems in health and biomedicine hinge on understanding how cells get together to build a specific organ or other structure," "If we can figure out how to manipulate these processes, we can start to develop ways to correct birth defects and address everything from traumatic injury to degenerative diseases, aging, and cancer"
eurekalert Tuesday, March 5, 2019 8:22:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"You can literally see the electrical activity in the tissue," "Within a few hours of when this activity is seen, we can start to measure changes in gene expression"
sciencedaily Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:56:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"Most of the people working on this problem study genetic and biochemical signals like transcription factors or growth factors," "We've decided to focus on electrical signals, which are a very important part of cell-to-cell communication"
sciencedaily Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:56:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin concludes
:
"With perhaps the exception of infectious disease, the majority of problems in health and biomedicine hinge on understanding how cells get together to build a specific organ or other structure," "If we can figure out how to manipulate these processes, we can start to develop ways to correct birth defects and address everything from traumatic injury to degenerative diseases, aging, and cancer"
sciencedaily Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:56:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
(
about Jeff Bezos
)
:
"Grocery has been the white whale for Amazon and Jeff Bezos,"
clickondetroit Tuesday, March 5, 2019 2:12:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
(
about Jeff Bezos
)
:
"Grocery has been the white whale for Amazon and Jeff Bezos,"
news4jax Tuesday, March 5, 2019 2:01:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
(
about Jeff Bezos
)
:
"Grocery has been the white whale for Amazon and Jeff Bezos,"
click2houston Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:42:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin explained
:
“Things that the caterpillar has learned, the butterfly still remembers,” “It’s very interesting to think about how this information can be stored in a medium that is undergoing radical deformation”
register Friday, December 7, 2018 10:03:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin told
:
“Living things are the best computers. It’s clear that intelligent behavior doesn’t always require a brain, like single-celled organisms or slime molds,”
register Friday, December 7, 2018 10:03:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin explained
:
“Things that the caterpillar has learned, the butterfly still remembers,” “It’s very interesting to think about how this information can be stored in a medium that is undergoing radical deformation”
register Friday, December 7, 2018 9:39:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
:
“Living things are the best computers. It’s clear that intelligent behavior doesn’t always require a brain, like single-celled organisms or slime molds,”
register Friday, December 7, 2018 9:39:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"To make the best choice, set aside some time to actively shop for your health insurance plan,"
oregonlive Saturday, December 9, 2017 12:23:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin added
:
"Our system predicted a three-component treatment, which we had never have come up with on our own, that achieved the exact outcome we wanted, and which we had not seen before in years of diverse experiments,"
thepeninsulaqatar Monday, January 30, 2017 2:31:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin noted
:
"Such approaches are a key step for regenerative medicine, where a major obstacle is the fact that it is usually very hard to know how to manipulate the complex networks discovered by bioinformatics and wet lab experiments in such a way as to reach a desired therapeutic outcome,"
thepeninsulaqatar Monday, January 30, 2017 2:31:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"I want to end MS in that time frame,"
timescolonist Friday, January 27, 2017 7:25:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"My dream is every patient with MS would participate in my survey,"
timescolonist Friday, January 27, 2017 7:25:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What that allows me to do is to be at my most creative,"
CBC Friday, January 27, 2017 3:13:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin says
:
"As employers rollout private exchanges and benefit administration systems, delivering a consistent, high quality user experience is critical to the success of the initiative,"
prnewswire Wednesday, October 5, 2016 4:40:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“When Michael was in uniform, about a year from finishing his service, he went to a friend who worked for the Jewish Agency which helped a lot of lone soldiers, and said that when he finished they would start a lone soldier center,” “Michael laid out the whole thing for him, noting that lone soldiers have very special needs that Sabras do not have. For example, they have no family here to support them, and have nowhere to go to if they need things. So, to make a long story short, 10 years later, we now have three lone soldier centers in Israel with a paid staff of about eight to 10 people”
jpost Sunday, August 14, 2016 12:37:00 AM EAT
Michael Levin told
:
“On Monday I got a text from a friend who said, ‘Hey, I just saw you in the new Warren video attacking Trump.’ And I thought, ‘You've got to be kidding me,’”
foxnews Sunday, June 26, 2016 7:49:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“The little girl you saw in that video actually came with me to the polls with her siblings to watch me vote for him,”
foxnews Sunday, June 26, 2016 7:49:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“And apparently it's still up on YouTube,”
foxnews Sunday, June 26, 2016 7:49:00 PM EAT
Michael Levin said
:
“And I think the Warren people just googled ‘American Dream,’ found us, and said, ‘What a nice mixed-race couple. They're probably sort of working-class people.’”
foxnews Sunday, June 26, 2016 7:49:00 PM EAT
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