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Rice University

STEM 2

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Rice University graduate student Sapna Chhabra led a study that challenged the application of a theory by British mathematician Alan Turing to cell signaling in embryos. A new paper by Chhabra and her colleagues shows that embryonic stem cells begin to self-organize when they sense interacting waves of molecular signals that help them differentiate into patterns.

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