DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate
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Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to create drugs inside the body

DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate: Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to cr…::Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to create drugs inside the body

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    You could also have a copycat funded by terrorists or whatever. Just because they build safeguards doesn’t mean the next person will. Fun.

    • ThoGot@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s not that they built safeguards but probably more that replication is finicky and you need these specific conditions for it to work at all
      (but I don’t have access to the cited paper)