Call for papers for 'Artificial Life for Science and Engineering' at ALife 26.

We seek work applying ALife concepts and tools to model real-world systems and engineer solutions — and assist scientific discovery through open-ended and curiosity-driven search.

Call info: alifeforscience.github.io

Reference?

The Bioelectrics of Immortality and Mortality in Cold-Sensitive Hydra oligactis | Bioelectricity Introduction: Bioelectric properties of cells are an important aspect of development, regeneration, and cancer. Because of their relevance to the establishment and maintenance of tissue form and funct...

What is the bioelectric pattern of immortality and mortality in hydra? Happy to share our latest work with Angelina Pimkina, Patrick McMillen, @parandetayyebi.bsky.social, @drpatricke.bsky.social, and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social in the journal Bioelectricity! www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Basal Xenobot transcriptomics reveals changes and novel control modality in cells freed from organismal influence - Communications Biology Basal Xenobot transcriptome shows unique up-regulation of evolutionarily ancient systems driven by its nascent emergent life history, including changes of metabolism and functional sensory perception ...

Some interesting aspects of Xenobot transcriptome! @paivaibhav.bsky.social , Leo Pio-Lopez, Megan Sperry, @drpatricke.bsky.social, @parandetayyebi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Ever wonder what a neural network would look like in a novel organism w/o selection for specific structure and function? New #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...