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That was my initial impression at first, but the key piece is this quote (emphasis mine): > [...] that, a few days later, become new Xenobots that look and mov
by margalabargala 5y ago
That was my initial impression at first, but the key piece is this quote (emphasis mine):
> [...] that, a few days later, become new Xenobots that look and move just like themselves.
The clumped up balls that are pushed together develop into more of the originals that function identically, not just look similar. Thus the children can create grandchildren and so on.
- lxe 5y agoSo the stem cells somehow react to the xenobots?
- margalabargala 5y agoI'm not sure exactly what you mean, but here's what's going on as I understand it: 1) The researchers compressed a group of stem cells into a xenobot 2) The xenobot is introduced into an environment with many loose stem cells 3) The xenobot, which moves of its own accord, moves around this environment and as it does so, collects and compresses loose stem cells into the shape of another xenobot 4) The newly compressed stem cells are now a new xenobot, which starts moving of its own accord and creating its own child xenobot. Goto 3.