This month’s Under the Lens discusses the potential of in silico feedback control applied to individual microbial cells, highlighting its use for study of single-cell dynamics and patterning behaviours.
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Zillig, L., Steel, H. Cells and computers, better together. Nat Rev Microbiol 19, 622 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00616-6
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