Living ‘xenobots’ can self-replicate | Science News  @ScienceNewsMag
Living ‘xenobots’ can self-replicate | Science News  @ScienceNewsMag
Science News | Living ‘xenobots’ can self-replicate | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Living machines called xenobots are blobs of frog stem cells that knit themselves together. Scientists have now found that the bots can self-replicate. A C-shaped xenobot was most efficient at collecting loose stem cells, a behavior that leads to more of the mobile xenobots.

Learn more: sciencenews.org/article/tiny-living-machines-xenobots-replicate-copies-frog-cells

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