Whitehead Institute’s Pulin Li on creating multicellular patterns in a Petri dish

10/02/2020 17 min
Whitehead Institute’s Pulin Li on creating multicellular patterns in a Petri dish

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode of AudioHelicase, Whitehead Institute Member Pulin Li talks about how her lab engineers cells in Petri dishes to communicate with each other and form patterns, recreating processes seen in embryo development—and how this work could eventually inform efforts to grow tissues in the lab.

 

Produced by Conor Gearin

Music: Pierce Murphy, “Versailles” (CC-BY 4.0)

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