The First Fully Programmable Bacterial Colony: Self-Organizing Biocomputers Are No Longer Fiction
BIOLOGY

The First Fully Programmable Bacterial Colony: Self-Organizing Biocomputers Are No Longer Fiction

A research team has engineered a bacterial colony that executes logic operations through quorum sensing — reliably, predictably, and with a parts list anyone can order.

Xenobots 3.0: Self-Replicating Living Robots Cross a Threshold That Wasn't on the Safety Roadmap
BIOLOGY

Xenobots 3.0: Self-Replicating Living Robots Cross a Threshold That Wasn't on the Safety Roadmap

The Xenobot project has produced organisms that don't just move and self-replicate — they now exhibit heritable behavioral variation. That's a property we usually call evolution.