Wow! Seems very like their existing 'xenobots' research but made out of human cells this time?! Fascinating stuff! (They are calling them "Anthrobots")
Sounds a bit like once it matures something like this could potentially be made in batches per-patient out of their own cells? Can imagine lots of possibilities along those lines for sure! (as long as their presence in the body can be made otherwise-benign, and of course that they could be 'programmed' to do something specific that you want them to do while in there!).
I really think Michael Levin and team are onto something completely astounding and revolutionary! Great read thanks!
Cancers are pure “Mother Nature’s” badbots. They are bad because they take but do not give. And taking means proliferating and dispersing and ultimately killing themselves and all the well behaved cells. Echos of politics.
Xenobots, anthrobots, and the inevitably musbots (mousebots) could be designed like CAR-T cells and go after the evil-doer cancers.
Mike and team: I hope you are working with NK cells too,
