{"id":104720,"date":"2020-04-03T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-are-printing-living-xenobots-out-of-biological-cells"},"modified":"2020-04-03T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T02:03:08","slug":"scientists-are-printing-living-xenobots-out-of-biological-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-are-printing-living-xenobots-out-of-biological-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Printing Living \u201cXenobots\u201d out of Biological Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-printing-living-xenobots-out-of-biological-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Designer Babies<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Xenobots, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-worlds-first-living-robots-stem-cells\">first brought to life<\/a> back in January, can\u2019t reproduce. Instead, computer scientists program them in a virtual environment and then 3D print their creations out of embryonic cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are witnessing almost the birth of a new discipline of synthetic organisms,\u201d Columbia University roboticist Hod Lipson, who was not part of the research team, told the <em>NYT<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s robotics, or zoology or something else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer Babies Xenobots, which were first brought to life back in January, can\u2019t reproduce. Instead, computer scientists program them in a virtual environment and then 3D print their creations out of embryonic cells. \u201cWe are witnessing almost the birth of a new discipline of synthetic organisms,\u201d Columbia University roboticist Hod Lipson, who was not part [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}