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electric_blue68

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November 30, 2021

Xenobots - what Possiblly could go wrong?! 🙄

Xenobots, named after the African clawed frog, are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues.
Wikipedia

So now it appears they can reproduce, too. 🙄😐😑

They used stem cells scraped from a frog.

One of the scientists said - (paraphrase)
It's not a new life form. It's a Robot.
A robot is something that humans tell it to what to do, and it does it.

Okaaaaaay....

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Name: Catherine
Gender: Female
Hometown: NYC
Home country: USA
Current location: same
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About electric_blue68

flaming liberal! :D Possibly progressive in some areas (not sure where the ?line is if there is one) Think FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy. Artist (Fine [drawing, getting back to painting, digital(!) art, artist books (where various book forms are used to make an art piece), assemblage sculpture] & Commercial [graphic, design, traditional pu & m, some illustration] , Crafter (unique wire jewelry, yarn work, occasional other crafts), Photographer. Loves the pursuits above, my city, cities, piblic parks & gardens, the deep countryside (been in the high desert of AZ, and up in The Rockies), nature, music, reading, cultures from around the world, space & earth sciences, science fiction, some history, food [:D].