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13 Jan 2020Landmark

Synthetic Morphology & Biobots Morphogenesis & Regeneration

Computer-designed "xenobots" built from frog cells move, heal and cooperate

An evolutionary algorithm designed body shapes that were then assembled by hand from frog skin and heart-muscle cells, producing millimetre-scale living machines with behaviours no frog has.

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