Introducing Simulated Stem Cells into a Bio-Inspired Cell-Cell Communication Mechanism for Structure Regeneration

Giordano B. S. Ferreira and Matthias Scheutz and Michael Levin

Here we include simulated stem cells in a previous mechanism of dynamic morphology discovery and regeneration. We hypothesize that only these cells generate new morphology messages while differentiated cells only relay those messages. We showed that a ratio as small as 10% of stem cells was sufficient for fully regenerate a planarian-like shape from an injury that removed 50% of the worm.

@inproceedings{ferreiraetal17ieeealife,
  title={Introducing Simulated Stem Cells into a Bio-Inspired Cell-Cell Communication Mechanism for Structure Regeneration},
  author={Giordano B. S. Ferreira and Matthias Scheutz and Michael Levin},
  year={2017},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/ferreiraetal17ieeealife.pdf}
}