Synthetic Morphology
Open problems in synthetic multicellularity
Solé, R., Conde–Pueyo, N., Pla–Mauri, J., Garcia–Ojalvo, J., Montserrat, N., Levin, M. (2024)
npj Systems Biology and Applications 10, 151 (2024) doi: 10.1038/s41540-024-00477-8
Self-Amputating and Interfusing Machines
Yang, B., Nasab, A. M., Woodman, S.J., Thomas, E., Tilton, L.G., Levin, M., Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2024)
Advanced Materials 2024, 2400241, doi:10.1002/adma.202400241
Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells
Gumuskaya, G., Srivastava, P., Cooper, B. G., Lesser, H., Semegran, B., Garnier, S., and Levin, M. (2023)
Advanced Science, doi:10.1002/advs.202303575
Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms
Clawson, W. P., and Levin, M. (2023)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139(4): 457-486
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field
Blackiston, D., Kriegman, S., Bongard, J., and Levin, M. (2023)
Soft Robotics, 10(4): 694-686
Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms
Kriegman, S., Blackiston, D., Levin, M., and Bongard, J. (2021)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 118(49): e2112672118
Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms
Levin, M. (2021)
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 564: 114-133
Synthetic living machines: A new window on life
Ebrahimkhani, M., and Levin, M. (2021)
iScience, 24(5): 102505
Gene Regulatory Networks Exhibit Several Kinds of Memory: Quantification of Memory in Biological and Random Transcriptional Networks
Biswas, S., Manicka, S., Hoel, E., and Levin, M. (2021)
iScience, 24(3): 102131
A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines
Blackiston, D., Lederer, E., Kriegman, S., Garnier, S., Bongard, J., and Levin, M. (2021)
Science Robotics, 6(52): eabf1571
Unlimited plasticity of embodied, cognitive subjects: a new playground for the UAL framework
Levin, M. (2021)
Biology and Philosophy, 36(2): 17
Applications and ethics of computer-designed organisms
Levin, M., Bongard, J., and Lunshof, J. E. (2020)
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 21(11): 655–656
A Scalable Pipeline for Designing Reconfigurable Organisms
Kriegman, S., Blackiston, D., Levin, M., and Bongard, J. (2020)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 117(4): 1853-1859