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AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,850 posts) Thu Dec 9, 2021, 01:11 AM Dec 2021

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Tiny living machines called xenobots can create copies of themselves

Is this the start of "The Blob?"

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-living-machines-xenobots-replicate-copies-frog-cells

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Tiny living machines called xenobots can create copies of themselves (Original Post) AnotherDreamWeaver Dec 2021 OP

personally, I welcome our gray goo overlords. nt Javaman Dec 2021 #1

Can they live outside of lab dishes? AnotherDreamWeaver Dec 2021 #2

Javaman

(62,521 posts)

1. personally, I welcome our gray goo overlords. nt

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Thu Dec 9, 2021, 01:01 PM

Dec 2021

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,850 posts)

2. Can they live outside of lab dishes?

Reply to Javaman (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 10, 2021, 01:05 AM

Dec 2021

And scoop up and combine any material? If so, sounds like trouble.

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