Where is Anatomy Encoded in Living Systems? by Michael Levin (2022)
Source.- we are very far from full understanding. End game is a design system where you draw the body and it compiles the DNA for you.
- some cool mentions of regeneration
How genes form bodies.
Developmental Genetics 1 by Joseph Ross (2020)
Source. Talks about homeobox genes.Some good mentions at: Video "Where is Anatomy Encoded in Living Systems? by Michael Levin (2022)".
Articles by others on the same topic
Developmental biology investigates how an organism's structures and cell types arise and become organized. Cell division, cell differentiation, movement, signaling and mechanical interactions connect a starting state such as a zygote to a patterned body. Development also includes later growth, maturation and regeneration.
A central distinction is between what a biological cell normally becomes and what it can become after an intervention. Fate mapping measures the former, while transplantation or changed signaling tests developmental potential. Live imaging can follow divisions and movements in the same embryo, making a developmental sequence directly observable rather than reconstructed solely from different fixed specimens.[ref]
Reconstruction of zebrafish early embryonic development by scanned light sheet microscopy by Philipp J. Keller and others. 2008, live imaging and nuclear tracking