Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines! Newly created ‘xenobots’ swim and move particles around in their environment. “liberating moment in the history of science...A reorientation towards what is possible.” sciencenews.org/article/frog-s…
Using blobs of skin cells from frog embryos, scientists have grown creatures unlike anything else on Earth. These microscopic “living machines” can swim, sweep up debris and heal themselves after a gash.
Should we panic? "With the advent of new organisms comes ethical issues, cautions Kobi Leins, a digital ethics researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia. “Scientists like to make things, and don’t necessarily think about what the repercussions are,” she says.
"More conversations about unintended consequences are needed, she says. Levin agrees. The small xenobots are fascinating in their own rights, he says, but they raise bigger questions, and bigger possibilities. “It’s finding a whole galaxy of weird new things.”"
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Hello Folks who spent your lifetime fighting biotechnology & corporations – like Vandana Shiva, Jeffrey Smith, Seràlini, & Greenpeace activists—if you have any modicum of self respect or sense of shame, you should abstain from the covid vaccines developed by Pfizer or Moderna.
You should pledge to never take the COVID vaccine. Publicly disavow them. As these vaccines represent the pinnacle, the best of this science, coming from the private sector that you all so despise and profited mightily with your protest industry. Now, is the time to show!
Your actions, activism relentless war on the biotech industry & scientists has caused considerable damage - products like Golden Rice never reached the farmers, countries shut doors in this tech based on cockamamie advise from you, development denied, lives lost, careers stalled
RIP: The man who bent light! Narinder Singh Kapany, inventor of fiber optics. Without it, the Internet and modern telecommunications would not be possible, nor the most advanced biomedical instrumentation, nor the efficient use of solar energy. bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/phy…
Dr Kapany’s research on fibre optic communications, lasers, bio-medical instrumentation, solar energy and pollution monitoring led him to gather more than 100 patents. In 1960, he founded Optics Technology Incorporation & again in1973, he founded Kaptron Inc.