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ReviewTrends in biotechnology2018

Programming Morphogenesis through Systems and Synthetic Biology.

Jeremy J Velazquez, Emily Su, Patrick Cahan, Mo R Ebrahimkhani

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Review in Trends in biotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Morphological, Behavioral, and Transcriptomic Life Cycle of Anthrobots.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  10. Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  14. Mathematical Modelling in Plant Synthetic Biology.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jeremy J VelazquezSchool of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; Authors contributed equally.
Emily SuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Authors contributed equally.
Patrick CahanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: patrick.cahan@jhmi.edu.
Mo R EbrahimkhaniSchool of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Phoenix, AZ, USA. Electronic address: mo.ebrahimkhani@asu.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · USArizona State University · USMayo Clinic in Florida · US

Funding

From intra to intercellular regulatory networks that define cell type identityR35GM124725 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Patrick Cahan · 2017 to 2026
$4.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124725
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian tissue development is an intricate, spatiotemporal process of self-organization that emerges from gene regulatory networks of differentiating stem cells. A major goal in stem cell biology is to gain a sufficient understanding of gene regulatory networks and cell-cell interactions to enable the reliable and robust engineering of morphogenesis. Here, we review advances in synthetic biology, single cell genomics, and multiscale modeling, which, when synthesized, provide a framework to achieve the ambitious goal of programming morphogenesis in complex tissues and organoids.

Indexed as

MorphogenesisSystems BiologyAnimalsCell CommunicationCell DifferentiationGene Regulatory NetworksGenomicsHumansModels, AnimalOrganoidsPluripotent Stem CellsSingle-Cell AnalysisSynthetic BiologyTissue Engineeringmulticellular systemsorganoidssingle cell genomicsstem cell self-organizationsynthetic biologysystems biology

Identifiers

PMID29229492
PMCPMC6589336
OpenAlexW2773994125

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