Michael Levin

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You have to be able to do the best you can under whatever circumstances you find yourself.

And in bioengineering, we see this all the time.

Life is incredibly interoperable.

You can do these crazy things, as you know, chimeras and and and you know, you can engineer all kinds of novel materials and scaffolds.

This is one reason I love so we make Xenobots, we make anthrobots, which are these human cell-derived bio bots.

They have they have these incredible features because.

It will work like hell to get to the m uh the species specific target morphology that it that that's the default.

But if it can't do that, it will certainly put together something else that's coherent and that has, you know, the these anthrobots.

No, no change well, we don't touch the genome.

So exactly normal wild type genetics.

They have 9,000 differently expressed genes than their tissue of of origin.

They're in the same kind of familiarity in the same, but they have a different lifestyle.

They're these little ciliated things that roll run around and do interesting things.

Half their genome is now expressed differently.

Xenobots express about 900 uh genes differently.

They they express a cluster for hearing.

And so we've actually tested that.

And it turns out that that unlike uh for unlike frog embryos, these these xenobots can actually respond to sound.

And so they they have this new, you know, they have this new lifestyle.

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