xenobots
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What Are Self-Replicating ‘Xenobots’ and How Might They Turn the World Into Grey Goo?
In 2020, scientists made global headlines by creating “xenobots” – tiny “programmable” living things made of several thousand frog stem cells. These pioneer xenobots could move around in fluids, and scientists claimed they could be useful for monitoring radioactivity, pollutants, drugs or diseases. Early xenobots survived for up to ten days. A second wave of…