Bioengineers build artificial jellyfish using silicone and rat’s heart muscle cells

Using recent advances in marine biomechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering, a team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming “jellyfish.” The finding serves as a proof of concept for reverse engineering a variety of muscular organs […]

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