{"id":239560,"date":"2026-06-24T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/michael-levin-we-grew-little-creatures-that-were-never-meant-to-exist"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T03:08:15","slug":"michael-levin-we-grew-little-creatures-that-were-never-meant-to-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/michael-levin-we-grew-little-creatures-that-were-never-meant-to-exist","title":{"rendered":"Michael Levin: \u201cWe Grew Little Creatures That Were Never Meant to Exist\u201d"},"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\/vpzOTaLt8IQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Creatures evolution never designed. Come geek out inside The Giant\u2019s Shoulder Community. Ad Free exclusive content and much more \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skool.com\/the-giants-shou\">https:\/\/www.skool.com\/the-giants-shou<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Michael Levin\u2019s lab takes ordinary frog skin cells and lets them reassemble into beings that have never existed in the history of life \u2014 xenobots \u2014 and then a version with a core of neurons: neurobots. With no evolutionary history as a \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creatures evolution never designed. Come geek out inside The Giant\u2019s Shoulder Community. Ad Free exclusive content and much more \u2192 https:\/\/www.skool.com\/the-giants-shou\u2026 Michael Levin\u2019s lab takes ordinary frog skin cells and lets them reassemble into beings that have never existed in the history of life \u2014 xenobots \u2014 and then a version with a core of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239560","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}