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BACK TO CLAYTRONICS after the weekend Fragment From Nature. We continue with progress on model robotics with swarm behavior drivers that exploit relatively simple intelligence units making a SUPERORGANISM with a greater intelligence. View in LinkedIn

INVISIBLE TO NORMAL LAB TESTS. "The inability of most research labs to culture cell wall deficient (CWD) bacteria has been an obstacle to their acceptance, and reliance on Koch’s postulates has made it difficult to correlate CWD bacteria to specific diseases." Also, invisible to light microscopy. https://lnkd.in/dDKztC5 View in LinkedIn

THE BODY IS BLIND TO L-FORMS. "The lack of a cell wall enables them to enter human cells and proliferate because they fail to elicit an appropriate response when the immune system is compromised." https://lnkd.in/dDKztC5 View in LinkedIn

UNDETECTED. "Precisely because they lack a cell wall, many antibiotics are unable to kill L-form bacteria directly and they also cannot be detected by many standard laboratory tests that rely upon staining the cell wall. The lack of a cell wall also means that they are able to enter and proliferate inside body cells and also to go undetected by the immune system." https://lnkd.in/dTCkxDw View in LinkedIn

UNKILLABLE BACTERIA. "People are exposed to L-form bacteria in many places. Because they cannot be killed by pasteurization or chlorination, L-form bacteria can be found in milk, food, and water. They can be transmitted via sperm, intimate contact, and can be passed from mother to child during childbirth." http://mpkb.org/home/pathogenesis/microbiota/lforms View in LinkedIn

DIVISION ADAPTION. "Remarkably, despite the limited mutational changes required, the new L-form cells completely abandon the normally essential cell division machinery used by virtually all extant bacterial cells, and proliferate instead by a mechanism of membrane tubulation or blebbing." https://lnkd.in/d_F2hqt View in LinkedIn

TROJAN HORSE STRATEGY. "Classical forms of most bacterial species can be found in the bloodstream. However L-form bacteria have figured out how to successfully infect and live inside the very cells of the immune system whose role is to kill bacteria. Once inside these cells, they can no longer be detected by the immune system and are able to persist in the body over long periods of time." http://mpkb.org/home/pathogenesis/microbiota/lforms View in LinkedIn

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL. "Shrinking today’s robotic pebbles and blocks to the submillimeter scale presents an enormous technical challenge, but it’s not unreasonable to imagine that advances in microelectromechanical systems might allow for such miniaturization a few decades from now." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

L-FORMS AND ORIGIN OF LIFE. "Invention of the cell wall may have underpinned the explosion of bacterial life on the Earth. Later innovations in cell envelope structure, particularly the emergence of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, possibly in an early endospore former, seem to have spurned further major evolutionary radiations." https://lnkd.in/d_F2hqt View in LinkedIn

SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS. "The use of shape memory polymers is demonstrated for deformable, programmable, and shape-memorizing micro-optical devices. A semi-crystalline shape memory elastomer, crosslinked poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate), is used to prepare various micro-optic components, ranging from microlens and microprism arrays to diffraction gratings and holograms." https://lnkd.in/d3Z-dd7 View in LinkedIn