Scientists made a robot that can trap, rotate, and inject C. elegans worms. Straight into the gonads. The robot can make transgenic worms ~2-3x faster than expert humans. Remember: Progress in biology is correlated with how fast we can do experiments. More robots, please.

Paper:

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I definitely read that first paragraph incorrectly.

*Inject genes straight into the gonads of C. Elegans worms

That... probably could have been phrased better. 🤓

Who would want to inject worms into their gonads?

Figuring out how a C. elegans worm works, down to neuron level, neuron expressions, gene expressions is the holy grail in understanding how life works. Once we can perfectly emulate the worm, like has been tried for over a decade via @OpenWorm we will make incredible discoveries

This is autonomous robot jumping over "robot+offshorting+video QI" stage.

I'm just waiting for our AI overlords to do the same to us

This is a weirdly specific flavour of Torment Nexus ...