Michael Levin

First thing they did was heal the wound.

Okay.

So it's an N of one, but.

I like the fact that the first intrinsic motivation that we noticed out of that system was benevolent and healing.

Like, I thought that was pretty cool.

And we don't know, maybe, you know, maybe the next 20 things we find are going to be some sort of, you know, damaging effects.

I can't tell you that.

But the first thing that we saw was kind of a positive one.

And I don't know, that makes me feel better.

There's a procedure called an epigenetic clock, where what you can do is look at particular epigenetic states of cells and compare to a curve that was built from humans of known age.

You can guess what the age is.

So we can take now, and this is Steve Havrath's work and many other people, that when you take a set of cells, you can guess what their biological age is.

So we make the anthrobots from cells that we get from human tracheal epithelium.

We collaborated with Steve's group, the Clock Foundation.

We sent them a bunch of cells, and we saw that if you check the anthrobots themselves,

they are roughly 20% younger than the cells they come from.

And so that's amazing.

And I can give you a theory of why that happens, although we're still investigating.

And then I can tell you the implications for longevity and things like that.

My theory for why it happens, I call this age evidencing.