Michael Levin

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Michael Levin: Bioelectric Signals That Reprogram Living Organisms · 21 Mar 2025 podcast

So if you make a if you make a bunch of human neurons in a culture like this and you put a big scratch through the middle, right?

So kind of a a wound assay, and then you put these uh bots into their environment, they form this thing called a super bot cluster.

And here you can see what they're starting to do.

You lift them up four days later, you see that what they've done is knit the two sides of the wound together.

So who would have thought that your tracheal epithelial cells that sit there quietly for for a long time, uh just uh kind of getting rid of the mucus and so on, are capable of having a completely different life in a different uh uh in different form factor with the ability to heal some of your uh some of your wounds and

This is just the beginning.

This is just the first thing we discover.

They probably do a lot more.

And so we're envisioning these anthrobots as personalized autonomous therapeutics.

In other words, they're made of your own cells.

If we inject them into your body, you don't need immune-suppressing drugs.

You're not going to reject them.

They uh biodegrade within a few weeks.

And in the meantime, there might be many applications in which these things could be cleaning out uh joints, looking for cancer cells, dropping off pro-regenerative.

Of model molecules fixing up um uh neural connections and so on.

And so the bottom line is this uh much of molecular much of biomedicine today is focused around these bottom-up technologies.

So we're so at the level of the hardware.

But there's a whole uh uh frontier of of medicine that's uh opening up, which are these top-down interventions that take advantage of the

uh intelligence of the living material to not to micromanage um uh molecular states, but to convince the cells to uh and reset set points we can train them um

Uh here are the electraceuticals that I've been showing you, right?

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