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FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF UNIVERSAL ASSEMBLERS

In Science Fiction literature, such assemblers have been called matter compilers, and occasionally synthesizers or Replicators .


UNIVERSAL ASSEMBLERS IN NATURE

Nature abounds with self-replicating assemblers such as Bacteria , which can be reprogrammed to perform some types of tasks by Genetic Engineering . Some progress has been made in this area, where researchers have inserted genes for a particular protein into a bacterium. One of the first examples of this is the immune-system hormone Interferon .