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CRG researchers confirm that a mathematical theory first proposed by Alan Turing in 1952 can explain the formation of fingers

25 Sep 2014
In a paper published recently in Science, CRG researchers confirm that BMP and WNT proteins are the so-called “Turing molecules” for creating embryonic fingers
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Harvard scientists develop a self-organizing thousand-robot swarm

23 Sep 2014
The thousand-robot swarm was created in the lab of Radhika Nagpal at Harvard, and described in the August 15 issue of Science. Following simple programmed rules, autonomous robots arrange themselves into vast, arbitrary shapes.

Swarm-Organ on BBC Radio 4

9 Jul 2014
Veronica Grieneisen and Yaochu Jin appeared on BBC Radio 4's weekly science show Frontiers.
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1st Swarm-Organ Periodic Meeting

22 Apr 2014
The 1st Swarm-Organ Periodic Meeting was much more than just a consortium meeting aiming to assess the progress of the project during the first 12 months of work. Held in Barcelona on the 24th and 25th of March, 2014, and hosted by James Sharpe at the Centre for Genomic Regulation ( CRG ) the meeting counted with the participation of all Swarm-Organ researchers plus a number of guests, each of them providing important insights into different aspects of the project.
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New advisory bodies

19 Mar 2014
Since February 2014 the Swarm-Organ project benefits from the expert advice of two newly appointed bodies: the external Scientific Advisor provides critical insight into the scientific and technological aspects of the project, and the Innovation Board looks after the exploitation potential of the project's results.

The Swarm-Organ project consolidates

30 Jan 2014
Just a few months after kick-off, the swarm of researchers involved in this FP7-funded project is certainly self-organizing into a unified and powerful research organ. Its goal is to develop a theoretical framework for the distributed adaptive control of relatively simple agents, based on gene regulatory networks. Reaching this degree of integration relatively early in the project has been due to ...