{"id":177234,"date":"2023-12-01T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/these-tiny-wound-healing-robots-start-life-as-just-1-human-cell"},"modified":"2023-12-01T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T02:22:23","slug":"these-tiny-wound-healing-robots-start-life-as-just-1-human-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/these-tiny-wound-healing-robots-start-life-as-just-1-human-cell","title":{"rendered":"These Tiny, Wound-Healing Robots Start Life As Just 1 Human Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgQZ8KzWKaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Regenerative medicine might just have had a new tool added to its arsenal: Scientists have created tiny biological robots out of living human cells. Though they may be small, the self-assembling bots are mighty, with a study demonstrating their potential for healing and treating disease.<\/p>\n<p>The team had already proven their biological robotics chops back in 2020 with the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/scientists-create-first-living-robots-made-entirely-of-living-cells-54673\" target=\"_blank\">Xenobots<\/a>, made from frog embryonic cells. They even managed to design Xenobots so that they could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/living-robot-that-can-selfreplicate-created-in-world-first-61786\" target=\"_blank\">reproduce<\/a> in a way that no living animal or plant does, something that had never been seen before.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers weren\u2019t sure whether the incredible capabilities of the Xenobots were in some way down to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/tags\/amphibians\" target=\"_blank\">amphibious<\/a> origins, so they wanted to find out if biobots could also be created from the cells of other organisms. And why not begin with humans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regenerative medicine might just have had a new tool added to its arsenal: Scientists have created tiny biological robots out of living human cells. Though they may be small, the self-assembling bots are mighty, with a study demonstrating their potential for healing and treating disease. The team had already proven their biological robotics chops back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177234","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}