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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