{"id":6836,"date":"2012-07-25T17:28:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T07:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2012-07-25T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T07:28:04","slug":"bioengineers-developed-an-artificial-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/technology\/bioengineers-developed-an-artificial-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineers developed an artificial jellyfish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medusoid is the brainchild of professor Kevin Kit Parker and a team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Using silicone and muscle cells taken from a rat’s heart, the researchers managed to arrange the materials in such a way that they move when zapped with electricity.<\/p>\n

“It occurred to me in 2007 that we might have failed to understand the fundamental laws of muscular pump,”\u009d said professor Kit Parker, co-author of the study. “I saw a jellyfish at the New England Aquarium, and I immediately noted both similarities and differences between how the jellyfish and the human heart pump. The similarities revealed what you need to design a bio-inspired pump.”\u009d<\/p>\n

The movement is so realistic, that is seems that Medusoid swims like a real jellyfish \u2014 and, in fact, before the electrical current was applied, some of the muscle cells contracted a bit.<\/p>\n

This technology could be the basis for a new type of pacemaker made with biological elements.<\/p>\n

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A comparison between a jellyfish and the silicone-based Medusoid. Image: Caltech\/Janna Nawroth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Harvard Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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