AI reveals a shared language guiding cell development

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Researchers describe a shared signaling language that helps guide how cells specialize and organize as an embryo develops. The findings may improve understanding of how stem cells form tissues and organs.

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized roles like brain, liver or muscle cells and organize themselves into three-dimensional structures such as tissues and organs.