Control of genes by self-organizing multicellular interaction networks
arXiv:2603.26530 · doi:10.1038/s41540-026-00745-9
Abstract
Multicellular self-organization drives development in biological organisms, yet a comprehensive theory is lacking as basic properties of cells can complicate common approaches. Framing such properties by dynamic graphs led to new theoretical propositions for multicellular self-organization in Escherichia coli. Here, corresponding ideas are developed from biologically-general first principles. The resulting perspective could aid both experimental and computational approaches to multicellular biology as well as efforts to control and engineer it.
8 pages, 3 figures. Revised and under review