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Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Cells
- snitty 3y agoThe lead author just successfully defended her thesis on Wednesday!
- spiritplumber 3y agocongrats!!!
- roschdal 3y agoThey are making killer biobots using our cells!
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI for one welcome our new Anthrobot overlords!
- herodoturtle 3y agoBut that would leave our humanity in jeopardy.
- lebean 3y agoJeopardy? Love that game. Count me in! Go anthrobots or whatever!
- gshixman 3y agoSo... is this that "non-human biologics" people are talking about? Jokes aside, clearing alot of hard work went into this and I do hope this works out in the long run
- vagabund 3y agoAssociated blogpost from co-author and leading researcher in this area, Michael Levin: https://thoughtforms.life/meet-the-anthrobots-a-new-living-entity-with-much-to-teach-us/ https://thoughtforms.life/meet-the-anthrobots-a-new-living-e...
- danwills 3y agoWow! Seems very like their existing 'xenobots' research but made out of human cells this time?! Fascinating stuff! (They are calling them "Anthrobots") Sounds a bit like once it matures something like this could potentially be made in batches per-patient out of their own cells? Can imagine lots of possibilities along those lines for sure! (as long as their presence in the body can be made otherwise-benign, and of course that they could be 'programmed' to do something specific that you want them to do while in there!). I really think Michael Levin and team are onto something completely astounding and revolutionary! Great read thanks!
- robwwilliams 3y agoCancers are pure “Mother Nature’s” badbots. They are bad because they take but do not give. And taking means proliferating and dispersing and ultimately killing themselves and all the well behaved cells. Echos of politics. Xenobots, anthrobots, and the inevitably musbots (mousebots) could be designed like CAR-T cells and go after the evil-doer cancers. Mike and team: I hope you are working with NK cells too, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_T_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_T_cell