BioEM 2025

Session

Plenary 1

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24 Jun 2025, 15:00

La Nef (Couvent des Jacobins)

Conveners

Plenary 1: Michael Levin - The bioelectric interface: exploiting collective intelligence for regenerative medicine

• Andrei Pakhomov
• Meike Mevissen

302. The bioelectric interface: exploiting collective intelligence for regenerative medicine

Michael Levin

24/06/2025, 15:00

How do cells cooperate toward creating and maintaining complex body structures? How do cells know what to build and when to stop? Endogenous bioelectric signaling functions as a cognitive glue, binding individual cells toward a collective intelligence that navigates anatomical space. Groups of cells solve problems across embryogenesis, regeneration, aging, and cancer suppression, using...