How to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation
Miguel Brun-Usan
How to fit in: The learning principles of cell differentiation
by Miguel Brun-Usan
27 April 2020
The logic underlying cell differentiation has motivated an intense field of debate over years. How can plastic, developing cells “know” exactly where and how to differentiate ? Given that cells are aquipped with genetic networks, could they benefit from some form of basic learning, as cognitive systems do with neural networks? In our recent paper, we show that this idea goes beyond a simple...