<div dir="ltr"><div>Very interesting! Bob,</div><div><br></div><div>
It's very interesting because it could be used in many applications (medical, and even environmental, etc.).<br></div><div>How did the scientists actually do it in the lab?.....The process from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) to xenobots, which are less than a millimeter (0.04
inches) wide. <br></div><div>
We all know how AI is installed in computer robots, but how
"bio artificial intelligence" is installed in frog's stem cells?🤔</div><div>
The article explained "The supercomputer came up with a C-shape that resembled Pac-Man, the 1980s video game." and
"The shape is, in essence, the program. The shape influences how the
xenobots behave to amplify this incredibly surprising process."
🤔🤔🤔 And I am totally lost reading the <span class="gmail-highwire-cite-metadata-article-category gmail-highwire-cite-metadata">Research Article</span>, Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms, <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2112672118">https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2112672118</a><span class="gmail-highwire-cite-metadata-article-category gmail-highwire-cite-metadata">!🙄🙄🙄<br></span></div><div><br></div><div>
Are prion proteins functioning similar to stem cells?
Dick Wagner's talk on the CRISPR page has terms I am not familiar with.
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</div><div><br></div><div>Do I ask too many questions? Maybe you could talk about this in one of the meetings as you have a biochemistry background.👍</div><div>Evie<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 1:26 AM Robert Primak <<a href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com">bobprimak@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">I saw that. I chafe at calling this a "life form", but they have to bait those clicks somehow.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I refer you to Dick Wagner's talk on CRISPR, wherein he chafes at calling a bacterial phage a virus. Viri are only endemic to eukariotic cells (with a true nucleus and certain chromosome characteristics). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Similarly, viri have been called life forms by some (not all) scientists, though they do not fulfill all the criteria of a complete life form. Then there are prion proteins, which are self-replicating but lack other characteristics even viri possess. <span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">(Mad Cow Disease is caused by a prion, as is Chronic Wasting Disease in wild deer. And Scrapies in sheep.) </span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-8-493#:~:text=Animal%20prion%20diseases%20include%20scrapie,and%20spongiform%20encephalopathy%20of%20primates." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-8-493#:~:text=Animal%20prion%20diseases%20include%20scrapie,and%20spongiform%20encephalopathy%20of%20primates.</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">(I minored in biochemistry in college, and did a tiny bit of grad school before dropping out.)</div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">So now we have synthetic "life" forms. The lines blur even further.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The machines are taking over, and we will be serving them before long. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">-- Bob Primak</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div> </div>
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On Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 08:07:10 PM EST, Evie <<a href="mailto:et8686@gmail.com" target="_blank">et8686@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-2650261699284965843yiv6112678226"><div dir="ltr"><div>Very interesting......<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say</div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html</a>
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