not sure if you guys know, but biologists & computer engineers are studying cellular engineering where we use cells to 3D print not just biological organs of species but whatever shape or functioning blob we want to make in the morphological space.

the way cells do these things is by using electric gradients and potentials, facilitated by ionic chains that enslave the cells into doing specific functions, like kidney cells would only do kidney stuff. engineers/biologists have figured out that if we take out a bunch of cells, any, like skin cells, and put them on a dish, they don't know what to do. for eg, skin cells don't start making layers or do skin cell functions when they're not genomically bound to an organism. think of cancer cells like cells that got freed from the bullying that enslaved them to do skin things.

now imagine putting a bunch of cells on a dish, and then supplying an electric gradient that biology uses to print a head with eyes, not genomically bound to do so, we're just supplying it similar gradient that biology uses to 3d print a head. if we do this by extracting a bunch of tadpole cells, and ask it to 3d print a head, it will 3d print random heads in the evolutionary adjacent hierarchy. the cells don't know exactly which head to 3d print since they're not 100% genomically bound by a tadpole DNA.

the mindset is shifting from "why are there cancer cells" to "why are there anything but cancer cells".

if you understand all this as a computer programmer, i suggest you expand your horizon and join this engineering extravaganza.