Machines were “hard and clanky, metallic, and pretty heavy,” as developmental biologist Michael ... Now, Levin and Bongard have taken their biological machines, or “Xenobots,” to the ...

The xenobots, which are less than 0.04 inches ... "This is profound," Michael Levin, director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and co-leader of the new research, said in a ...

But what the xenobots did — dubbed kinematic self-replication — is new in living organisms, says Michael Levin, a professor of biology at Tufts and associate faculty member at the Wyss Institute.

Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin redefines what life really is, how intelligence works, and what the ...

the next generation of xenobots. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: That's Michael Levin of Tufts University. He's one of the scientists on the project. He helped build these tiny creatures from frogs.

And xenobots come in many shapes ... with Blackiston and Michael Levin, a biologist who directs the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. In one Skype call between groups, Kriegman showed a video ...

These xenobots have been designed to function ... Freed from the rest of the embryo, these skin cells formed what Michael Levin, the scientist after whom the Levin Lab is named, calls a “proto ...

Xenobots are tiny. Here they are against a ... that tells the cells how to do kinematic self replication,” says Michael Levin, a professor of biology at Tufts. “We triggered something where ...

In the press release, Tufts University researcher and study co-author Michael Levin said the xenobots could hunt for “nasty compounds or radioactive contamination,” gather microplastics in the ...

The xenobots swam through open fields ... Well, that would be an adult human. —Michael Levin, Tufts University Potential avenues for these biodegradable machines primarily revolve around environmental ...

can move on their own and encourage neuron growth across a region of damage,” said study co-author Michael Levin, a Tufts University professor of biology who previously helped design xenobots ...