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Synthetic Lateral Inhibition in Periodic Pattern Forming Microbial Colonies

@article{DuranNebreda2021SyntheticLI,
  title={Synthetic Lateral Inhibition in Periodic Pattern Forming Microbial Colonies},
  author={Salva Duran-Nebreda and Jordi Pla and Blai Vidiella and Jordi Pi{\~n}ero and N{\'u}ria Conde-Pueyo and Ricard V. Sol{\'e}},
  journal={ACS Synthetic Biology},
  year={2021},
  volume={10},
  pages={277 - 285},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:231624252}
}
The artificial system studied here and the engineering perspective on embryogenic processes can help validate developmental theories and identify universal properties underpinning biological pattern formation, with special interest for the area of synthetic developmental biology.
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