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RE: [Popular STEM] Curating the Internet: STEM digest for April 11, 2021
Thanks for the reply. This is also a good question. I read that the team has a number of medical and non-medical uses in mind for the Xenobots, but I don't know about their relevance to biological weapons agreements.
In addition to the points you raise, one of the articles pointed out that there are also ethical questions surrounding the creation of a new "living" organism, especially if future enhancements include nervous systems and/or reproductive systems.
Hi Steve. What I understood is that xenobots are like some kind of little living robot. not? How amazing I am completely shocked, but what good is this scientific breakthrough? Is it a really important breakthrough?
Hi Jennifer, thanks for the reply! Yes, I think you understand it right, and I agree that the Xenobots are pretty amazing.
This first generation probably doesn't have much practical use, but the guy who runs the lab thinks that the general area of research will have uses in medical fields including things like cancer treatments and birth defects. One of the articles or videos also said that they expect to be able to accomplish non-medical tasks by putting swarms of Xenobots together.
actually, xenobots are going to play a key role in targeted drug delivery as well as to target tumor for cancer therapy in my view point.
Hi, yes, you're right. He mentioned that in one of the videos, too. Thank you for pointing that out!