Tag: collective behaviour

Diagram showing transition from individual electrically active heart cells to tissue-level synchronisation producing the first coordinated heartbeat
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Heart’s First Beat Emerges From Collective Synchronisation, Not a Single ‘Starter Switch’

Scientists have identified that the heart's first beat emerges from collective electrical synchronisation of many cells crossing a critical threshold…

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