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How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own.


C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his visionary ideas.

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