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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 30.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2016 May 23;39:207–214. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.04.015

Figure 2.

Figure 2

A cell state transition is driven by the quasi-potential (landscape) change induced by external signals. In (A) a bistable landscape exists with cells residing mainly in state xa due to a high barrier to state xb . In (B) cells transit to xb , caused by the external signals that flatten the barrier.