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ReviewTrends in molecular medicine2023

Future medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body.

Eric Lagasse, Michael Levin

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Review in Trends in molecular medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Electrical stimulation promotes longevity and regeneration in a colonial chordate.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. The Multiscale Wisdom of the Body: Collective Intelligence as a Tractable Interface for Next-Generation Biomedicine.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  11. Uncertainty minimization and pattern recognition inJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eric LagasseMcGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Michael LevinAllen Discovery Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: michael.levin@tufts.edu.
Tufts University · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

A New Molecular Mechanism to Bioengineering a LiverR01DK114282 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LAGASSE, ERIC · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
Intranasal delivery of neural stem cells alone or in combination with environmental enrichment as a potential therapy for experimental TBIR56NS113810 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI GUTOVA, MARGARITA, KLINE, ANTHONY E. · 2020 to 2020
$430k
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK114282NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS113810
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The remarkable anatomical homeostasis exhibited by complex living organisms suggests that they are inherently reprogrammable information-processing systems that offer numerous interfaces to their physiological and anatomical problem-solving capacities. We briefly review data suggesting that the multiscale competency of living forms affords a new path for biomedicine that exploits the innate collective intelligence of tissues and organs. The concept of tissue-level allostatic goal-directedness is already bearing fruit in clinical practice. We sketch a roadmap towards 'somatic psychiatry' by using advances in bioelectricity and behavioral neuroscience to design methods that induce self-repair of structure and function. Relaxing the assumption that cellular control mechanisms are static, exploiting powerful concepts from cybernetics, behavioral science, and developmental biology may spark definitive solutions to current biomedical challenges.

Indexed as

HomeostasisHumansbioelectricitycognitionregenerative medicinetop-down control

Identifiers

PMID37481382
PMCPMC10527237
OpenAlexW4384938107

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Registered trials

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