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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanielH" data-source="post: 1548604" data-attributes="member: 18034"><p>This story is like saying that since you can take a pruning of a plant and grow another plant from it, humans have discovered how to create lifeforms. That's what they did, pruned away stem cells from a frog with an instinctive drive to find food but prevented it from developing further, so instead the clump just falls apart and becomes two clumps seeking food - "food" which is really intentionally left there for them, and isn't food at all, but frog cells left there for it to assemble. These "xenobots," cannot eat and as a result they will die as soon as they run out of energy. It's simply cells sticking together. However, I won't discount the ability of scientists to find a way to do something evil with this new concept.</p></blockquote><p></p>