A fascinating post by Eric Topol
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That’s quite the lede about a striking paper that came out this week. It seems like science fiction, but it’s not. It’s about the Tufts University group, led by Michael Levin, discovery of human biobots—cells that self-organize to become multicellular and mobile—as seen below, derived from human lung (trachea) cells that had been laying flat in culture for decades. Previously mobile biobots from frogs (xenobots) had been demonstrated by these investigators, but this is the first report to show this capability from human cells, no less the potential to repair tissue.
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