Congratulations to all the projects and thank you to the speakers who shared their insights with us today!

What a fascinating ride into the future of innovation 🔥🚀

Audio player: art19.com/shows/sean-car…

It was such a treat to talk to Sean Carroll on the #MindscapePodcast —we had a great conversation about synthetic morphogenesis and biobots. This was my go-to podcast during many long nights in the lab while working on the #anthrobots ; very grateful I got to do a full circle 🙏

Got many questions on #anthrobots at the #GlobalTrendsForum —compiling some links here:
doi.org/10.1002/advs.2…
tinyurl.com/cnn-anthrobots
tinyurl.com/reuters-anthro…
tinyurl.com/nature-anthrob…
tinyurl.com/science-anthro…
tinyurl.com/npr-anthrobots
tinyurl.com/onproflevinsbl…
tinyurl.com/ongizemswebsite

Prochain chapitre de ce #GlobalTrendsForum : #ReprogrammingLife 🌱

Sur scène, Gizem Gumuskaya, doctorante à Tufts University / Harvard University présente les robots biologiques qu'elle contribue à développer.

I had a great time discussing with Balázs Kégl and answering great questions by Michael Levin around embodied intelligence and self-organization in robotics!

Had a great chat with Curt Jaimungal, Michael Levin, and Angela Tung discussing Anthrobots, embryos, the morphogenetic code, and nature as a design medium 🧬🧬

Also came out over the holidays is this insightful article by Celia Ford of Advanced Science News with additional information on my background as a designer and architect: advancedsciencenews.com/living-biobots…

Few updates over the holidays—my PhD research #anthrobots were featured in The New York Times (tinyurl.com/nytanthr), Forbes (tinyurl.com/frbsanth), and Smithsonian (tinyurl.com/smithanth), w/ Michael Levin, Pranjal Srivastava, Ben Cooper, Hannah Lesser, Ben Semegran.

Just started on my winter break read—“The Shape of Life” by Rudolf Raff, a gift from my advisor Michael Levin for my PhD defense on Anthrobots last month😊🧬 The more we understand how biological architectures develop in nature, the better we’ll get at creating them by design✌️

Got to describe Anthrobots in Turkish! My mom said she finally understood what I’ve been up to all these years after having watched it in the news in Turkey 😂 …🤔

Bilim dünyasında çığır açacak bir çalışma👏👏👏Araştırma grubunda bir Türk kadın bilim insanı da var. Bu röportajı yapmak benim için büyük bir gururdu. Tüm gençlerimize ilham vermesi dileğiyle Gizem Gumuskaya #HT360

Are anthrobots ('human xenobots') intrinsic morphologies of human (lung) cells, or just bits of tissue flailing randomly? Here I discuss the intriguing new work by Michael Levin and colleagues for Scientific American.
scientificamerican.com/article/robots…

Researchers have coaxed tracheal cells to form coordinated groups called organoids that can propel themselves with tiny appendages.

When added to wounded neurons in the lab, these “anthrobots” helped neurons repair themselves. scim.ag/51f

Described as the 'first fully cellular living biological robots made up of human cells,' researchers have envisioned 'Anthrobots' being used to repair spinal cord or retinal nerve damage, recognize cancer cells or deliver targeted drugs

Described as the 'first fully cellular living biological robots made up of human cells,' researchers have envisioned 'Anthrobots' being used to repair spinal cord or retinal nerve damage, recognize cancer cells or deliver targeted drugs