Every measurement shortcut follows a recognizable sequence. First comes the exciting phase: a new tool produces results at a scale and speed impossible with previous methods. Papers accumulate. Discoveries multiply. Funding follows. Careers are built on throughput. The shortcut becomes normal before its failure modes are fully understood. Then comes the reckoning. Not a scandal … Continue reading The Exciting Phase
Tag: biotechnology
Xenobots | Living Robots
"Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African clawed frogs into tiny robots that move around under their own steam...'They are living, programmable organisms.'...Their unique features mean that future versions of the robots might be deployed to clean up microplastic pollution in the oceans, locate and digest toxic … Continue reading Xenobots | Living Robots
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