Engineers create 'lifelike' material with artificial metabolism
As a genetic material, DNA is responsible for all known life. But DNA is also a polymer. Tapping into the unique nature of the molecule, Cornell engineers have created simple machines constructed of biomaterials with properties of living things.
Using what they call DASH (DNA-based Assembly and Synthesis of Hierarchical) materials, Cornell engineers constructed a DNA material with capabilities of metabolism, in addition to self-assembly and organization – three key traits of life.
Dynamic DNA material with emergent locomotion behavior powered by artificial metabolism (DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aaw3512) (DX)
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday May 06 2019, @03:56AM (2 children)
Cornell engineers have
created simple machines constructed of biomaterials with properties of living things.played God and doomed us all to eternal hellfire.(Score: 2) by Mykl on Monday May 06 2019, @06:04AM
Cue the Grey Goo [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @01:12PM
I'd like to play god once. But not a single one visited me yet and I'm not much of a chessmaster.