Scientists used computer algorithms to “evolve” an organism that’s made of 100% frog DNA — but it isn’t a frog.

What happens when you take cells from frog embryos and grow them into new organisms that were “evolved” by algorithms? You get something that researchers are calling the world’s first “living machine.”

Though the original stem cells came from frogs — the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis — these so-called xenobots don’t resemble any known amphibians. Read More