Biologists managed to create microbots from frog cells. These microbots learned to move around the site and successfully recover after injuries.
Experiment was carried out at the University of Tafts (USA), Western media write. Scientists put forward a hypothesis that cells, “liberated” from the rest of the body, will demonstrate new properties.
They “released” Xenopus Laevis frog embryo stem cells and made xenobot, who remember 1 bit of information. In the artificial medium, the cells first “were bored” in small spheres, and then turned into cells of the fiscal epithelium. During the differentiation of cells, the cells learned to move in an aqueous solution at a speed of more than 100 micrometers per second. Also “Frog Xenobot” are able to rotate in the labyrinths, remember the experience of meeting with blue, clean the platform from garbage.
The principle of molecular memory can be expanded to detect and register not only light, but also radioactive contamination, chemical pollutants, diseases or medicines.