“We are standing at the frontier. And when you stand at the frontier, you must stay curious — and critical.”
— Simon Verghote, ULB researcher in bioethics and synthetic biology

It begins with a frog, and a question as old as philosophy itself. In a laboratory at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Simon Verghote is part of a group exploring xenobots — tiny programmable organisms designed by artificial intelligence, constructed from real living cells.