Recent Publicity
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- A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation -- The treatment spurred limb growth over 18 months (Science News, Jan. 31, 2022)
- Researchers are getting better at regenerating lab animals' limbs. They might regrow human body parts in your lifetime. (Business Insider, Jan. 29, 2022)
- Five-Drug Cocktail and Wearable Bioreactor Enable Regrowth of Amputated Adult Frog Leg (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Jan. 27, 2022)
- Frogs can regrow amputated limbs after being treated with mix of drugs, new research finds (CNN, Jan. 26, 2022)
- Frogs Without Legs Regrow Leglike Limbs in New Experiment (The New York Times, Jan. 26, 2022)
- Frogs Regrow Missing Limbs in Lab Study, Advancing Key Effort of Regenerative Medicine (The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 26, 2022)
- Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs (The New Yorker, May 3, 2021)
- Living robots made from frog skin cells can sense their environment (New Scientist, Mar. 31, 2021)
- Cells Form Into 'Xenobots' on Their Own (Quanta Magazine, Mar. 31, 2021)
- Meet the Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life (The New York Times, Apr. 3, 2020) [ pdf ]
- Xenobots: AI Enabled First Living Robots (Podcast: Science Rehashed, Mar. 4, 2020)
- These tiny living robots could help science eavesdrop on cellular gossip (Popular Science, Jan. 17, 2020)
- Living Robots, Designed By Computer (Science Friday, Jan. 17, 2020)
- A research team builds robots from living cells (The Economist, Jan. 16, 2020)
- World's First "Living Machine" Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence (Scientific American, Jan. 15, 2020):
- Researchers create robots made of living animal cells (Cosmos, Jan. 14, 2020)
- These "xenobots" are living machines designed by an evolutionary algorithm (MIT Technology Review, Jan 14, 2020)
- Algorithm Designs Robots Using Frog Cells (The Scientist, Jan. 13, 2020)
- Scientists Assemble Frog Stem Cells Into First 'Living Machines' (Smithsonian Magazine, Jan. 13, 2020)
- Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism (WIRED, Jan. 13, 2020)
- Xenobot (on Wikipedia)
- Mike Levin on electrifying insights into how bodies form (Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Jul. 26, 2019)
- Scientists unlock new role for nervous system in regeneration (Phys.org, Apr. 25, 2019)
- A Step Toward Regenerating Amputated Limbs (Alliance of Advanced BioMedical Engineering, Jan. 22, 2019)
- Frogs Have a Bioelectric Mirror (Featured as "Editor's Choice in Neuroscience" in The Scientist, Jan. 1, 2019)
- Cross-body communication is electric in the froglet (Nature, Dec. 3, 2018)
- Scientists Got Adult Frogs to Regrow Limbs. It's a Step Toward Human 'Regeneration' (Discover Magazine, Nov. 6, 2018)
- A Progesterone-Pumping Device Helps Frogs Regenerate Lost Limbs (PBS NOVA, Nov. 6, 2018)
- Dr. Michael Levin: Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms Cells Use to Communicate During Development and Regeneration ( People Behind the Podcast, Aug. 13, 2018)
- Controlling electric signals in the body could help it heal ( Knowable Magazine, Aug. 10, 2018)
- Bioelectricity's Potential ( PBS NOVA, Jun. 13, 2018)
- Space Worms: Unexpected Pioneers of Discovery & Commercial Services ( Upward: Magazine of the ISS National Lab, June 2018)
- Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth ( Quanta Magazine, Mar. 13, 2018)
- The Spark of Life ( BioTechniques, Jan. 24, 2018)
- Biotech experts' top five trends in 2017 ( ResearchGate News, Dec. 22, 2017)
- He makes tadpoles with eyes on their tails. Could that one day help solve birth defects in humans? ( STAT, Jan. 2, 2018)
- There's Healing Power in the Secret Electrical Language of Our Cells ( Singularity Hub, Dec. 27, 2017)
- From day one, a frog's developing brain is calling the shots ( Science News, Sep, 25, 2017)
- Space Worms Have Scientists Seeing Double (Heads) ( CASIS, July 15, 2017)
- Supercomputers Use Machine Learning to Gain New Insights into Complex Cellular Processes ( Scientific Computing, June 26, 2017)
- Space Life Could Give You An Extra Head (If You're A Flatworm) ( Science Friday, June 16, 2017)
- Un ver revient de l'espace avec deux têtes [ Realites Biomedicales (blog de LeMonde.fr), June 15, 2017]
- What Space-Faring Flatworms Can Teach Us About Human Health ( Smithsonian.com, June 13, 2017)
- Space oddity: Flatworm sent into orbit returns to Earth with an extra head (Digital Trends, June 12, 2017)
- Tweaking the Tiny Electrical Charges Inside Cells Can Fight Infection, (Smithsonian.com, May 26, 2017)
- Bioelectricity new weapon to fight dangerous infection ( Medical Xpress, May 26, 2017)
- Bioelectric hacking creates two-headed flatworms ( Cosmos, May 24, 2017)
- Researchers reveal bioelectric patterns guiding worms' regenerative body plan after injury ( Phys.org, May 23, 2017)
- Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail (New Scientist, May 23, 2017)
- Nothing is Impossible ( Biophysical Society, May 23, 2017)
- Heads or Tails ( BioTechniques, Apr. 26, 2017)
- Tadpoles Learn to See With Eyes in Their Tails ( Discover Magazine, Mar. 30, 2017)
- Tadpoles learn to see with new eyes transplanted on their tails ( New Scientist, Mar. 30, 2017)
- Machine Learning Lets Scientists Reverse-engineer Cellular Control Networks ( Texas Advanced Computing Center, Mar. 22, 2017)
- VIDEO: Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Research ( NSF Science Now, March 9, 2017)
- Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape ( New Scientist, Jan. 4, 2017)
- Replicating Life in Code ( PBS NOVA, Jul. 6, 2016)
- Battling cancer with light ( Reuters, Apr. 26, 2016)
- Paul G. Allen announces $100 million to launch the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group (March 23, 2016)
- The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Announces Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University (March 2016)
- Cancer stopped in frogs by hacking cells' bioelectricity ( New Scientist, Mar. 16, 2016)
- Tufts scientists make worms' heads turn ( Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 2015)
- Scientists tweak worms to give them the brains of another species, without changing their genomes ( Washington Post, Nov. 26, 2015)
- Biologists induce flatworms to grow heads and brains of other species ( Neuroscience News, Nov. 24, 2015)
- Putting it all on pigmentation: heuristics of a bold and stochastic cell fate decision ( Science Signaling, October 6, 2015)
- Organs from the lab ( Nature, June 2015)
- A Computer Just Solved This 100-Year-Old Biology Problem ( Popular Mechanics, June 2015)
- Computer independently solves 120-year-old biological mystery ( Wired, June 2015)
- Planarian regeneration model discovered by AI algorithm ( Kurzweil AI, June 2015)
- Electrical zap of cells shapes growing brains ( Science News, March 2015)
- Memory in the Flesh ( The Verge, March 2015)
- Bioelectrical Signals Can Stunt or Grow Brain Tissue (Scientific American, March 11, 2015)
- Bioelectric signals spark brain growth (Nature, March 11, 2015)
- Our flatworms have been in space! here, here, and here.
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