Freitag, 17. August 2012

biotech - artificial life

A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

 http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n8/full/nbt.2269.html

 [...] Here we combined these capabilities in a systematic design strategy to reverse engineer a muscular pump. We report the construction of a freely swimming jellyfish from chemically dissociated rat tissue and silicone polymer as a proof of concept. [...]